The Graveyard of the Pacific

Thousands of shipwrecks have happened here from as early as 1700.

What’s left of the Peter Iredale, since that fateful day of 1906, is a portion of the stern, long darkened and rusted, on the windswept shore not far from Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. Photo by author in 2014.

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