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 ...

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 ...

Case closed: Baja was a peninsula ... t help—he thought he'd found the Northwest Passage, and some maps showed the island of California going all the way up past Oregon. Finally, over a century ...

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 ...

The same motion also caused the Baja Peninsula to start rifting away from mainland Mexico about five million years ago, subsequently opening up the entire Gulf of California. (See a Mexico map.) ...

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 ...