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Bodega Bay and Bodega Harbor
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Bodega Bay is a small shallow, sand-choked inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the coast of northern California in the United States. It is approximately 5 miles (8 km) across and is located approximately 40 miles (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Rosa. The bay straddles the boundary between Sonoma (north) and Marin (south) counties.
Bodega Bay is protected on its north end from the Pacific Ocean by Bodega Head, which shelters the small Bodega Harbor, separated from the main bay by a small spit of land. The San Andreas Fault runs parallel to the coastline and bisects Bodega Head - the Head lies on the Pacific Plate while the town is on the North American Plate. The village of Bodega Bay sits on the eastern side of Bodega Harbor. The bay connects on its south end to the mouth of Tomales Bay.
Bodega Bay was discovered in 1775 by the Spanish explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, after whom it is named. The Bay was the site of a Russian fur trading post established in 1811 and was an active harbor until the 1870s. Bodega Bay was also the setting of the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Birds. Bodega Head was selected by PG&E for, and construction actually started on, a nuclear power reactor in the 1960s. A large hole was dug, but construction was halted when it was discovered that the site is on a geologic fault. Opponents to the plant called it Hole in the Head, which it is still called today. PG&E sold the land to the state of California for one dollar. The hole is now a freshwater pond that provides habitat for birds.
There is some speculation that Bodega Bay may have been Sir Francis Drake's Nova Albion landing location on the California coast.
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Bodega Bay as of 7/16/2007
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Bodega Head is a small promontory on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States. It is located in Sonoma County approximately 40 mi (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and approximately 20 mi (32 km) west of Santa Rosa.
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Bodega Harbor is a small shallow natural harbor on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States, approximately 40 mi (64 km) northwest of San Francisco. The harbor is approximately 2 square miles (5 square km) in area.
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San Andreas Fault is a geological fault that runs a length of roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) through western and southern California in the United States. The fault, a right-lateral strike-slip fault, marks a transform (or sliding) boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North
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Bodega Head is a small promontory on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States. It is located in Sonoma County approximately 40 mi (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and approximately 20 mi (32 km) west of Santa Rosa.
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To the north the easterly side is a divergent boundary with the Explorer Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Gorda Plate forming respectively the Explorer Ridge, the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Gorda
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Bodega Bay, California
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Tomales Bay is a long narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Marin County in northern California in the United States. It is approximately 15 miles (25 km) long and averages nearly 1.0 miles (1.
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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (baptized 3 June, 1743 – 26 March, 1794) was a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Sailing from the Spanish Naval Department at San Blas, in what now is the Mexican state of Nayarit, from 1774 – 1788 this South American
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Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 – January 27 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, slave trader, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era. Drake was knighted by the Queen in 1581.
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