General data notes
- Wreck locations around Astoria/Columbia bar are fairly accurate, as referenced from the map in Pacific Graveyard (see below)
- Remaining wrecks are not as specific, but clustered around the bars or bays where the wrecks are known to have occurred (except for those that provided more specific locations)
- Not to be used for nautical navigation (use the Coast Guard's page for that)
Sources
We gratefully acknowledge the following sources for much of the data in this map:
- James Gibbs' Pacific Graveyard — the most thorough collection of data on shipwrecks around the Columbia Bar
- James Gibbs' Shipwrecks of the Pacific Coast — detail on shipwrecks on the Pacific coast
- Magellan: Ships Encyclopedia — an archive site with details on hundreds of shipwrecks
- Wikipedia's list of shipwrecks by year
- List of Columbia bar shipwrecks
More excellent resources and articles
- Oregonlive: Eight Shipwrecks that Still Haunt Oregon
- Background on the Columbia bar's dangerous history
- OPB story: Graveyard of the Pacific
- HistoryLink.org: Washington shipwrecks
- OregonEncyclopedia: Oregon shipwrecks
- California Maritmes: Chronology of California shipwrecks
- wrecksite.eu: An exhaustive list of global shipwrecks (requires subscription for some data)