al

The Golden Gate Bridge,

completed in 1937, has
80,000 miles (129,000 km) of
wire in its two main cables,
weighing a total of
22,200 tons (tonnes).
Santa Barbara

0 miles

0 km

200

Visalia

Mojave

Long Beach

Barstow
San Bernardino

Salton
Sea

Lake Mead

MEXICO

San Diego

32
C

Chula Vista

San
Clemente I.

UTAH
At Black Rock Desert
on October 15, 1997,
ThrustSSC, driven
by Andy Green,
became the first land
vehicle to break the
sound barrier by
achieving a speed
of 763 mph
(1228 km/h).

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Death Valley is not

only the lowest point
in North America, at
282 ft (86 m) below
sea level, it is also
the hottest, with
a maximum air
temperature of
134F (57C)
recorded in 1913.

ARIZONA

Las Vegas

Palm Springs

Oceanside

Santa Ana

Riverside

Ely

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200

San Nicolas I.

Lancaster

Mojave
Desert

Pasadena

C h a n n e l Huntington Beach
I s l a n d s Santa Catalina I.

Santa Rosa I.

Elko

Death Valley

Tonopah

Mt Whitney
14,495 ft
(4418m) -282 ft
(-86m)

Bakersfield

Oxnard
Los Angeles

OCEAN

P ACI FIC

135

Fresno

Bishop

Hawthorne

Lake Tahoe
CARSON CITY

Fallon

CALIFORNIA

le

Winnemucca

N E V A D A

Sparks

Merced

t
as
C o
a
n

Jo

Salinas

i
qu

Monterey

Sa

Santa Cruz

Reno

Stockton
Oakland
Modesto

Yuba
City

San Jose

Berkeley
San Francisco

SACRAMENTO
Santa Rosa

Ukiah

Pyramid Lake
Chico

t
b old

Hum

Susanville

i
e

r
a
a d
v
e
C o l o ra

e s
n g
R a

Redding

NORTH AMERICA

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