Maps in the 1500s depicted California as a peninsula, which is closer to the truth (the Baja peninsula extends roughly a 1,000 miles south from the present-day Golden State).

While maps might have become more accurate from that point on the rumours about California Island refused to go away completely. For example, a map from Japan in 1865 still depicts the state as ...

In Baja California, hundreds of narrow dirt tracks crisscross the desert like a map drawn in the sand, veering off the highway towards sun-baked sierras and hidden turquoise coves.

The amazing cloud-repelling islands off Baja California (IMAGERY) June 24, 2014. Satellite view Sunday (NASA) By Jason Samenow.

The Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve complements protections already in place off the California coast. “Now we have a chain of island conservation that extends from the U.S. all the way to ...

The Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve, formally established last week and located along the Baja California peninsula, is one of three new marine biosphere reserves decreed as Mexico hosted the ...