The volcanic mountains that rise from these islands’ desert floor are virtually ... which created a long pattern that looked like a map of Baja California. Next stop was the sea lion nursery ...

McLaughlin began to collect other maps showing California as an island. "At first we stored them ... which is closer to the truth (the Baja peninsula extends roughly a 1,000 miles south from ...

continued to propagate in maps into the 18th century until further exploration proved that California was not an island, and Baja California is in fact a peninsula. So, why did the mistake happen?

The first time I visited Mexico’s Baja California, the world’s second ... Negro and swimming with sea lions on Espiritu Santo Island. During those long drives, I’d stare out at the stark ...

Miguel Aguíñiga Rodríguez, Baja California’s Minister of Tourism, extended an invitation to explore this ideal space for ...

No, Baja California (Baja for short ... assumed they were looking at a huge island. Their earliest attempts to sail to Baja failed for various reasons, and when a landing was made in 1534 the ...

Researchers collected and analyzed venom from 83 rattlesnakes across 11 uninhabited islands. These included the Red Diamond Rattlesnake (Crotalus ruber) from Isla San Jose, Baja California Sur ...

Click the image to enlarge the map of Baja California Sur. Just to the south, find the San José del Cabo Estuary wildlife preserve. This peaceful place where the Río San José meets the ocean ...

Geography and Map Division) At the time of its discovery, explorers thought that Mexico's Baja California was an island. Still, the name stuck. California the "island" became California the ...

Extending from the Colorado River Delta in the north to 270 kilometres southeast of the tip of the Baja California Peninsula, the property includes 244 islands and islets clustered in eight major ...