Point Cabrillo and the Point Cabrillo Light Station in Mendocino County in northern California.
A section of San Pedro, California near Point Fermin is known as Cabrillo Beach. The Cabrillo Marine Museum is also in the same area.
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Cabrillo was the first European explorer to navigate the coast of present day California in the United States.
Cabrillo, who had started life as a shipbuilder's boy, had built and owned the flagship of his venture (two or three ships), and stood to profit from any trade or treasure.
A notary's official report of Cabrillo's inconclusive expedition was lost; all that survives is a summary of it made by another investigator, Andrés de Urdaneta, who also had access to ships' logs and charts.
In the terrible battles between the Aztecs and the Spanish, Cabrillo fought as a captain of crossbowmen.
Cabrillo's report to the crown on the earthquake's destruction is the first known piece of secular journalism written in the New World.
Cabrillo also sought seven fabulously wealthy cities known as Cibola that some believed were near the Pacific coast beyond New Spain and the possibility of a route connection the North Pacific to the North Atlantic -- the Straits of Anian.
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