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6 unusual facts about Half Moon Bay


Anna Christian Waters

She was five when she disappeared from Purisima Canyon, a rural area near Half Moon Bay, California, on January 16, 1973.

Coastsiders

Coastsiders is a community along the coast of San Mateo County, California, and includes the towns of Montara, Moss Beach, Princeton-by-the-Sea, El Granada, Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, Pescadero, Loma Mar, La Honda and San Gregorio.

Half Moon Bay, Auckland

Half Moon Bay is a coastal suburb located immediately south of Bucklands Beach in Manukau City, Auckland, New Zealand.

Half Moon Bay, New Zealand

Oban, New Zealand, located on this bay, is sometimes referred to as Halfmoon Bay

Ramaytush people

– 1823 Pomponio, of Half Moon Bay led raids against Mission Dolores, taking livestock and horses.

1950s – Andrés Osorio, of Half Moon Bay, said to be the area's last "Indian", possibly Tulare or Mexican.


East Auckland

The East Auckland area includes some south-eastern suburbs within the boundaries of the old Manukau City and Auckland City areas, typified by Howick and including but not limited to Pakuranga, Half Moon Bay, Mount Wellington and Dannemora.

J.P. Viernes

The first professional theatre production that Viernes was a part of was a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at the Coastal Repertory Theater in Half Moon Bay, California.

Purissima, California

Located on José María Alviso's Rancho Cañada de Verde y Arroyo de la Purisima in a rural area four miles (6 km) south of Half Moon Bay, the village was one of the earliest settlements on the San Mateo County coast, founded in an agricultural area in the early 1850s.


see also

Charaki

Situated on a similar half-moon bay, Charaki is slightly smaller than the Greek village of Stoupa near Kalamata on the Greek mainland.