Torrey Canyon
USA /
California /
Piru /
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Piru
World / United States / California
Oil development for Union Oil Company, in the 1950s. Because of the development here, Union Oil named one of their tanker ships "Torrey Canyon". The tanker went on to run aground off the coast of England on March 18, 1967, leading to the first of the "supertanker" spills. Pollution contaminated the English and French coasts. The Torrey Canyon's sister ship, Sansinena, blew up in LA harbor several years later.
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Coordinates: 34°22'44"N 118°47'18"W
- Chiquita Canyon Landfill 14 km
- Southern Oaks 18 km
- Shell Oil Fields 20 km
- I-5 Bypass Route Due To Damaged Overpass From Northridge Earthquake. 21 km
- Castaic Grade 22 km
- Deadman Canyon Sag Pipe - Los Angeles Aqueduct 26 km
- Partially Built Interchange For The Never-Built 126 Freeway (Now Sierra Highway) 30 km
- Stetson Ranch 35 km
- Proposed Palmdale-Glendale Tunnel/Road Combination 54 km
- M1.5 Industrial Zoning 65 km
- Piru, California 4 km
- Rancho Camulos Museum 4.6 km
- Happy Camp Regional Park 6.4 km
- Big Sky Movie Ranch 8.1 km
- Lost Canyons Golf Club 9 km
- Del Valle Regional Training Center 13 km
- Val Verde, California 13 km
- Chiquita Canyon Landfill 14 km
- Rocky Peak Park 16 km
- Los Padres National Forest 108 km