Believe it or not, explorers believed California was an island for a very long time and this map depicts that assumption. It would take over 50 years after the creation of this map before it was confirmed that California is indeed attached to the mainland of America.
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Hello typo!!
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Cleary, what those explorers found was the Baja California peninsula (“Peninsula: almost an island”).
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Maybe that original notion helped fuel the ridiculous idea that it could break off
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They were just looking to the future.
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