Point Conception

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The headland in southwestern Santa Barbara County where the California coast turns from north-south to east-west and the Santa Barbara Channel opens to the Pacific. It is a hydrographic hinge rather than a scenic one: water upwelled along the coast north of the point is advected south past it, and the blue whale feeding aggregations of the northern Channel Islands sit in that advected water. The geography of the migration's northern end is therefore set by a corner in a coastline.

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Blue Whale MigrationOcean

Evidence · 1

Krill in the California Current and blue whale habitat use in the Channel Islands

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Connections · 1

Santa Barbara Channeladjacent_to

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