Although Drake's official log was lost, the ship's doctor's log described landing in an area that reminded him of the White Cliffs of Dover.

The extent of New Albion and the location of Drake's landing have long been debated by historians, with most believing that he came ashore somewhere on the coast of northern California.

According to the Olompali Park website, a pierced Elizabethan silver sixpence ( see Francis Pretty's account of Drake's landing, below ) bearing the date of 1567 — the oldest artifact bearing a calendar date ever found in California — was discovered in the park by archeologists.

The bay is named after Sir Francis Drake and has long been considered Drake's most likely landing spot on the west coast of North America during his circumnavigation of the world by sea in 1579.

* Shifting sandbars match Drake's descriptions of landing site

There is speculation that Bodega Bay may have been Sir Francis Drake's Nova Albion landing location on the California coast.

Campbell Cove, on the east side of the promontory, is a candidate for Sir Francis Drake's 1579 landing site.

The exact location of Drake's landing has never been determined, and the extent of Drake's claim is unknown.

Hondius ' map was based on journal and eyewitness accounts of the trip and has long fueled speculation about the precise location of Drake's landing, which has not yet been firmly established by historians.

The generally accepted landing site is at Drake's Cove in Drakes Bay although more than a score of other locations have been offered.

Aker maintained that the cove geography was cyclic over decades, and in 2001 he correctly predicted the reemergence of a spit in the cove which he claimed closely matched the contemporary accounts of Drake's landing spot.

The so-called Drake's Plate of Brass is a forgery that purports to be the brass plaque that Francis Drake posted upon landing in Northern California in 1579.

" The memoirs also say that the plate included the date of the landing, Drake's name, and the queen's portrait on a sixpence coin, showing through a hole in the plate.

Von der Porten, Aker, and Allen surmise that the conspirators probably planted the plate in Marin in 1933, not far from the supposed location of Drake's landing.

Professor James D. Hart, director of the Bancroft Library, assembled a re-testing plan in preparation for the 400th anniversary of Drake's landing.

* Pretty's account of Drake's landing and the real plate

This assertion is based on research by Canadian Samuel Bawlf, who in The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 suggests that Drake's reference to landing in what he called New Albion ( the name of the region of North America explored by Drake ) was, in fact, what is now known as Comox.

Accounts that have him landing at the location known as Drake's Bay may be false.

It is also close to Drake's Bay, once thought to be the site of Sir Francis Drake's landing on the American mainland.

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

The generally accepted location of Drake's New Albion is Drakes Bay, California, although more than a score of other notions have been offered.

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 ).

Jodocus Hondius c. 1595 map detail of New Albion compared to Drake's Cove, Drakes Bay, California 1579

Although Bob Ward initially drew some of the discrepancies between the official published accounts of Drake's voyage and other documents to Bawlf's attention, and concluded that Drake likely sailed much farther to the north than northern California, he has been critical of some of Bawlf's conclusions, such as Drake's erecting a post proclaiming New Albion at what is now Comox Bay.

By 1989, Drake's could be found as far away as Southern California, through a deal with a local distributor for the Von's supermarket chain.

He developed a fascination with Drake and used his own nautical skills to reconstruct Drake's 1577 – 1580 circumnavigation of the globe, during which Drake landed on the west coast of North America and founded a temporary colony of New Albion at a still undetermined spot, possibly in Northern California.

* Drake's Bay, California

Only years later, after England's destruction of the Spanish Armada in 1588 ( in which Drake played a significant role ), did Queen Elizabeth allow an official account of Drake's voyage by Richard Hakluyt to be published — though with many of the details obscured.

Drake's account of the voyage including many details of New Albion was published in 1628.

Bawlf points to a number of pieces of evidence in support of his view that the official published record of Drake's voyage was deliberately altered to suppress the true extent of his discoveries.

In 1585 he was captain of a galliot in Drake's expedition to the Spanish main, in 1588 he commanded a queen's ship against the Armada, and in 1590 he served with his father's expedition at the coast of Portugal.

The four are attacked by the Cyber-Samurai, which added to William Drake's prejudices about the girl.

Over the years, the Sound has been defended by Drake's Island, Picklecombe Fort, Cawsand Fort, the Breakwater Fort, Fort Bovisand, Staddon Fort and Stamford Fort.

Drake's invasion signaled the decline of Spanish dominion over Hispaniola, which was accentuated in the early 17th century by policies that resulted in the depopulation of most of the island outside of the capital.

* Paul Drake, Jr .: Paul Drake's son ( also a private investigator ), played by William Katt in nine of the TV Movies listed below ; Katt is the son of actress Barbara Hale ( see above ).

* Some clues left by John Dee in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception are written in Enochian text.

While Parris is in Vienna, Drake's trust fund is stolen by a dishonest bank official.

After the forced retirement of Tim Drake ( by his father ) as Robin, Drake's on-and-off girlfriend, and an established DC Comics character named Stephanie Brown ( alternatively known as the Spoiler ) became the fourth incarnation of Robin and the first in-continuity female version of the character.

He ended Tim Drake's run as Robin after he severely injured him, but was later defeated by Grayson who assumed the role of Batman with his former mentor's biological son, Damian, as the new Robin.

Drake's Bay is backed by similar-looking cliffs, leading many to believe this is where the ship landed.

Sneaking aboard the Fortune, Nick discovers on the back side of a sheet of music a receipt signed by Amboy acknowledging that Drake's debt had been paid.

Through the series he played a gymnast doing a single arm twist from a high ring while a commentator counted eventually into the thousands and by the end of the series, Drake's arm appeared to be 20 ft long.

Foxe's book was among Sir Francis Drake's favourites ; Drake himself is regarded by the Spaniards as a cruel and bloodthirsty pirate.

The area was visited by Francis Drake's fleet in early 1578, in the early stages of his circumnavigation.

Within a day of Drake's striking oil, Drake ’ s methods were being imitated by others along Oil Creek and in the immediate area.

The technical problem was that most boats steer by varying the angle of attack in the water between the centre board and the rudder, and Drake's question came down to simple operation of how a standing person could control both the power of the sail as well as the direction of the craft.

* Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, a 2007 PlayStation 3 action-adventure video game developed by Naughty Dog

Iorga was also identified as the subject of fictional portrayals in a modernist novel by N. D. Cocea and ( against the author's disclaimer ) in George Ciprian's play The Drake's Head.

Schemes include cloning Amanda from her toenail ( but it turns out to be Drake's ), having a bloodhound lead her to Amanda by following her scent, and often breaking into Amanda's dressing room.

However, Drake's claiming land on the Pacific coast became the legal basis for subsequent colonial charters granted by English monarchs that claimed lands from " sea to sea " ( i. e. from the Atlantic where English colonies were first settled, to the Pacific ).

" Professor George Davidson, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, after a careful study of the narrative and the coast identifies the harbour entered by Drake with Drake's Bay, under Point Reyes, about thirty miles ( 50 km ) north of San Francisco.