Farallon Islands facts
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An Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark's carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.
how far are the farallon islands from san francisco?
Thirty miles from San Francisco in the Pacific Ocean are the Farallon Islands. The Native Americans called them the 'Islands of the Dead' and from 1946 to 1970 they were used as a nuclear waste dump.
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when are sharks at the farallon islands?
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The San Francisco Bay wasn't discovered for over two hundred years after Europeans first discovered California due to the Farallon Islands. Expeditions were so fearful of them that they sailed west to avoid them, thus missing the small Golden Gate inlet. The Bay was later discovered by land.
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The Egg War in 1863 which claimed two lives on the Farallon Islands, 25 miles off San Francisco. It was won by the Egg Company, which later sold the island back to the government
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The Egg War, a conflict over the right to harvest natural seabird eggs from the Farallon Islands of San Francisco
