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  2. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    The State Mining Bureau was renamed the Division of Mines and Geology in 1862. Its pseudonym, the California Geologic Survey, was established in January 2002. [15] In 1869, George Davidson, an assistant coast surveyor, compiled the book Pacific Coast: Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. The 262-page volume is complete ...

  3. Southern California Bight - Wikipedia

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    Satellite view of the Southern California Bight in California, including the Channel Islands. The Southern California Bight stretches for about 692 km (430 mi) along the Pacific coast of North America, of which about 456 km (283 mi) is located within the United States and 236 km (147 mi) is located within Mexico.

  4. Maritime history of California - Wikipedia

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    The maps and charts were poor and the California coast was often shrouded in fog, so most journeys were well off shore to avoid the Farallon and California Channel Islands. After sailing about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) south and passing the Baja Peninsula tip and crossing the Gulf of California they followed the western coast of Mexico to Acapulco ...

  5. List of U.S. states and territories by coastline - Wikipedia

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    This is based on measurements made using large-scale nautical charts. The figure for Connecticut was arrived at separately and may not reflect the correct comparative distance. The data for method 2 is from a list maintained by the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management of NOAA.

  6. Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Map of Channel Islands sanctuary Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary [1] is a sanctuary off the coast of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in Southern California 350 miles (563 km) south of San Francisco and 95 miles (153 km) north of Los Angeles.

  7. Here's where California's cliffs are collapsing into the sea ...

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    Cliffs along California’s northernmost coast have been eroding faster than the more populated bluffs of Southern California — one of many conclusions highlighted in a new map and study that ...

  8. Channel Islands (California) - Wikipedia

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    The Channel Islands (Spanish: islas del Canal, Archipiélago del Norte) are an eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. They define the Santa Barbara Channel between the islands and the California mainland.

  9. Nautical chart - Wikipedia

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    A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 – c. 1580). It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth's surface were a flat plane (Portuguese National Archives of ...