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USS Milwaukee, Samoa Beach
The USS Milwaukee was a U.S. Navy cruiser that in 1917 was overcome by wind and waves close to shore and was beached at the community of Samoa on the northern peninsula of Humboldt Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Arcata and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Eureka, California.
SS Monte Carlo, Coronado Shores
The shipwreck of the SS Monte Carlo is occasionally exposed by shifting sands during the winter on Coronado Shores, a wide sandy beach also known as South Beach, on Coronado Island about 4.5 miles (7.3 km) east of Point Loma and 3.4 miles (5.5 km) south of San Diego, California.
Pudding Creek, Fort Bragg
Pudding Creek is a small coastal watershed in Mendocino County that drains 18 square miles (4,662 ha) before entering the Pacific Ocean about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) southwest of Cleone and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Fort Bragg, California.
Blues Beach, Chadbourne Gulch
Chadbourne Gulch is a small stream that flows to the Pacific Ocean at Blues Beach between Bell Point to the north and Bruhel Point to the south, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Fort Bragg and 1.8 miles (2.9 km) south of Westport, California.
Franklin Point, Año Nuevo State Reserve
Franklin Point is located in the Año Nuevo State Reserve, 7.3 miles (12 km) south-southeast of Pescadero and 22 miles (35 km) northwest of Santa Cruz, California.
Ocean Roar, Walker Creek
Ocean Roar is a small group of buildings at the mouth of Walker Creek, and formerly a community on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) southwest of Tomales and 16 miles (26 km) west of Petaluma, California.
Estero de San Antonio, Bodega Bay
Estero de San Antonio is a small coastal lagoon formed by a sand bar that dams Stemple Creek, a stream that starts in the hills of Marin and Sonoma Counties and flows generally west to Bodega Bay near the mouth of Tomales Bay, 5.75 miles (9 km) southeast of the community of Bodega Bay and 1.5 mi (2.4 km) northwest of Dillon Beach, California.
Esalen Institute, Slates Hot Springs
The Esalen Institute is located in Slates Hot Springs, a community on the Big Sur coast at an elevation of 118 feet (36 m), about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Monterey, and 46 miles (74 km) northwest of San Simeon, California.
Big River, Mendocino
Big River flows for 42 miles (68 km) through the northern California Coast Range starting at an elevation of approximately 2,800 feet (865 m), draining a watershed of 181 square miles (46,880 ha) and entering the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino, California.
Abbotts Lagoon, Point Reyes National Seashore
Abbotts Lagoon is a two-stage lagoon on the northwestern coast of the Point Reyes National Seashore, 9 miles (14.5 km) south-southeast of Tomales Point, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Inverness, California.
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This ‘warming stripe’ graphic is a visual representation of the change in global temperature from 1850 (top) to 2019 (bottom). Each stripe represents the average global temperature for one year. The average temperature from 1971-2000 is set as the boundary between blue and red. The colour scale goes from -0.7°C to +0.7°C. The data are from the UK Met Office HadCRUT4.6 dataset.
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