This spot is known as the "Graveyard of the Pacific" because of the high number of accidents involving ships. Between 1725 and 2005, there have been over 238 disastrous shipwrecks, earning this ...

where the Pacific Ocean and Columbia River meet, is well-known by locals as being difficult to navigate with treacherous waters, earning the nickname "Graveyard of the Pacific," according to ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

From 1693 on, more than 2,000 ships from European and colonial empires of trade and settlement came to grief along this shoreline, which came to be known to colonizers as “The Graveyard of the Pacific ...