David K
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Old Baja Maps: Cape Region
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1930 (3)
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1970 (2)
1975
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Cardon Man
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David... on the 1788 map i can read a 3 word name right where Cabo Pulmo is presently. The last word seems to be Pulmo. But can you make out the first
two words in the name?
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cardon Man
David... on the 1788 map i can read a 3 word name right where Cabo Pulmo is presently. The last word seems to be Pulmo. But can you make out the first
two words in the name? |
Gee wiz, I can't either! Getting old sucks! The map is in the book 'Clavgero's History of (Lower) California' c1937/ c1971 and it is pretty tiny print
on the original in the book.
Here is a close up from that map of the cape:
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BajaNuts
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it is very interesting to watch the shape of the tip of Baja change over the time when the maps were made. And especially the La Paz, mogote,
tecolote, area.
Our scientists are mapping the universe with telescopes and Hubble satellites. Does anyone wonder if our images of the universe as we see them now
through Nasa will look like the 1700's sketches compared to what will come in the future?
I wonder what the future maps of the universe will look like?
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Cardon Man
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Thanks David. On the close up it now looks like the word I thought said Pulmo is actually Palmas. Marking the palmas bay no doubt. Still can't make
out the first two words in the name though.
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Von
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Hey Cardon Man you live on a sailboat? Your avatar seems to say that just curious................
READY SET.....................
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Cardon Man
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Von
Hey Cardon Man you live on a sailboat? Your avatar seems to say that just curious................ |
No seņor. The vessel featured in my avatar is a panga. Living on a sailboat sounds fun though.
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Taco de Baja
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The second word may be "della" for "de la" for "of the" as in "___ of the palms"
first word may begin with either an S of an F as the letters look similar on old maps. The closest I can get is Seno della Palmas, or "Breast of the
Palms"...But that's probably not right... Unless there is a nice rounded hill there covered with palm trees. 
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fdt
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Here is the global warming proof for you David;
On your old maps, between of the Bay of La Paz and Espiritu Santo Island there is an island named San Lorenzo on the San Lorenzo Canal. On the google
earth shots here, that island is under water!
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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David K
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I think that's Atlantis!
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Barry A.
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-----but, on the 1970 Chris Cross map the island San Lorenzo has migrated to the west, and reappeared-----------perhaps a floating island, which
negates your proposition ?!?!?! or at least brings it into question????
Islands come, and islands go, throughout history, es verdad? The same is true of "climates".
Barry
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David K
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Islands 'sink' a lot more than oceans rise, me thinks! Look at the Hawaiian Island chain... The newest is the biggest... all others are sinking and
eroding back into the sea!
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Taco de Baja
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18,000 years ago sea level was 330 feet lower than it is now. Coastlines and islands all over the world would have looked a lot different than they
do now.
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fdt
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
Islands come, and islands go, throughout history, es verdad? |
Same as on TV, Gilligans Island, Treasure Island, Fantasy Island, Dream Island, The Island 
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