9 p. m .) – Cascadia earthquake: One of the largest earthquakes known ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island spreading along more than 600 miles ( 966 km ) of North America's West Coast to Cape Mendocino in northern California.

After that, it runs underwater along the coast until it nears Cape Mendocino, where it begins to bend to the west, terminating at the Mendocino Triple Junction.

The town's name comes from Cape Mendocino, named by early Spanish navigators in honor of Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain.

9 p. m .) – Cascadia earthquake: A gigantic earthquake rips across the present-day west coast of Canada and the United States along the Cascadia subduction zone over more than 600 miles ( 966 km ) from Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino.

As older maps confirm, Spanish authorities and local residents were well aware where the actual northern terminus of the Gulf of California lay, but by extending the coastline north past Cape Mendocino and eventually even into Puget Sound, Drake's claim of Nova Albion for England ( 1579 ) could be invalidated by the priority of Cortes ' claim ( 1533 ).

Andrés de Urdaneta Though he sailed to 38 degrees North before turning east, his hunch paid off, and he hit the coast near Cape Mendocino, California, then followed the coast south to San Blas and later to Acapulco.

* 1542-43: Juan Cabrillo visits San Diego, Farallon Islands, Cape Mendocino, Cape Blanco, Oregon.

The San Pedro sailed from Cebu, headed roughly northeast, followed the Kuroshio Current ( also known as the Japan Current ), and made landfall on the coast of California about the latitude of Cape Mendocino.

To the south, just off of Cape Mendocino in California, it intersects the San Andreas Fault and the Mendocino fault zone at the Mendocino Triple Junction.

* Cape Mendocino in Humboldt County, California

* Mendocino Fracture Zone, a seismic fracture zone off the coast of Cape Mendocino

Their party explored the coast from San Francisco to Cape Mendocino.

* Further north on the west coast of North America another unstable triple junction is to be found offshore of Cape Mendocino.

The San Andreas fault forms the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates, extending ~ 850 miles ( 1370 km ) along the western coast of California from Cape Mendocino in the north to just south of the Salton Sea near the US-Mexico border.

The American freighter Auckland picked up seventeen survivors from the sea, who might have been the first Japanese people to set foot on California when they were brought to San Francisco in February 1851, although Hasekura Tsunenaga had earlier sailed past Cape Mendocino.

The Mattole, including the Bear River Indians, are a group of Native Americans traditionally living on the Mattole and Bear rivers in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino, within the present Humboldt County, California.

Japanese submarine I-17 found Emidio off Cape Mendocino on the early afternoon of 20 December 1941 and hit the tanker with five shells from its 14-cm deck gun.

The Cape Mendocino Coast. Cape Mendocino located on the Lost Coast entirely within Humboldt County, California, USA, is the westernmost point on the coast of California.

But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.

Ajax has also expanded its talent searching program to South Africa with Ajax Cape Town.

In the last two decades, the Blue Crane has largely disappeared from the Eastern Cape, Lesotho, and Swaziland.

Cape Verde has signed treaties with Senegal and Mauritania delimiting the specific boundaries.

The current north of the Canaries, has a cooling effect on the islands of Cape Verde, making the air temperature more bearable than it would expect in any case at this latitude.

At first, the islands of Cape Verde housed an extensive savanna and dry forest cover, but mostly it was removed to convert to agricultural land, which, together with the arid climate and rugged terrain, has led to a soil erosion and desertification widespread.

Survival in a country with few natural resources has historically induced Cape Verdeans to emigrate.

It has obtained the necessary licensing from the Cape Verde Government.

" China has been a friend of Cape Verde even before it gained independence from Portugal 30 years ago.

Cape Verde also is eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), and has signed an Open Skies agreement to facilitate air travel safety and expansion.

Cape Breton Island has experienced a decline in population of approximately 4. 4 % since the previous census in 2006.

The population of Cape Breton Island has been in decline for almost two decades with an increasing population exodus in recent years due to economic conditions.

While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

The Condé Nast travel guide has rated Cape Breton Island as one of the best island destinations in the world.

The traditional style has been well preserved in Cape Breton, and céilidhs have become a popular attraction for summer tourists.

* Farley Mowat, writer, has his summer residence in Cape Breton.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

Since the 1990s the region has experienced an exceptionally tumultuous period in its regional economy with the collapse of large portions of the ground fishery throughout Atlantic Canada, the closing of coal mines and a steel mill on Cape Breton Island, and the closure of military bases in all three provinces.

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

Industrial Cape Breton has historically been a region of labour activism, electing Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( and later NDP ) MPs, and even produced many early members of the Communist Party of Canada in the pre-World War II era.

* Maritimes, Acadian or Downeast style of fiddling which has many similarities to Cape Breton fiddling

It has been speculated that this whale crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Northwest Passage, since alternative routes through the Panama Canal or Cape Horn are not contiguous to the whale's established territory.

It has been criticised on the grounds that it in fact excludes most of the islands in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the Azores, and also that the only island referred to by the term that is actually in the North Atlantic Ocean is Ireland.