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Mendocino

[ men-duh-see-noh ]

noun

  1. Cape, a cape in NW California: the westernmost point in California.


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This weekend’s growth made Dixie the second largest wildfire in California history, surpassing the Mendocino Complex fire of July 2018.

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The fact that her mother is a movie star who’s moved to off-grid Mendocino to escape Hollywood complicates the investigation.

Eventually, she finds her way to the picturesque Northern California town of Mendocino, where she spent the most stable years of her youth.

The Pomos of Lake and Mendocino counties make especially fine baskets for every purpose.

Plainly lost, lost somewhere along what are now known as Mendocino, and Blanco, and Flattery.

On August 2, somewhere near what is now Cape Mendocino, daylight revealed a rim of green forested hills above the silver sea.

He had missed the Columbia the previous year by standing off the coast north of Mendocino.

Thence, after suffering other tempests, they finally sighted Cape Mendocino in forty-four degrees of latitude.

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