Aerial Photography of Southern California
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Pacific Palisades to Point Dume
The coast from Pacific Palisades to Point Dume is steep and rugged, a result of the continuing uplift of the Santa Monica Mountains. Though sparsely populated, this stretch of California's coastline is heavily traveled by tourists and locals enjoying the beautiful scenery and gorgeous beaches. While being a wonderful area to visit, this stretch of the coast can be hammered by winter storms producing rapid shoreline erosion and landslides in the local mountains. Also, fires can be a hazard during the dry season.
The photo above was taken from nearly directly overhead, and at very high altitude, by a space-shuttle astronaut in 2001. The oblique-angle photograph below was taken in 2005 from an altitude of about 7000 feet, and shows the main features of the rugged coastline from Pacific Palisades to Point Dume.
To view aerial photographs of the Pacific Palisades to Point Dume coast, click on areas of interest above, or scroll down and click on the thumbnail images below. Note that viewing large image files may require a few second to minutes to download, depending on your computer and your Internet connection.
Pacific Palisades to Surfrider County Beach
1 
Pacific Palisades, Castellammare, and Topanga County
Beach (Click here
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2 
Pacific Palisades (Click here
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3 
Pacific Palisades and road work on Pacific Coast Highway in March
2005 (Click here
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4 
Pacific Palisades and Pacific Coast Highway (Click
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5 
Will Rogers State Beach (Click here
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6 
Pacific Palisades, Will Rogers State Beach, and Sunset
Boulevard (Click here
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7
Will Rogers State beach, Pacific Palisades and Malibu from inland
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8
Will Rogers State Beach, Malibu and Point Dume from inland
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9 
Topanga Beach and Getty Villa (Click here
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10 
Topanga Canyon and beach (Click here
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11
Topanga Beach and Pacific Palisades (Click here
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12 
slope failure along Highway 1, Topanga Beach
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13 
Topanga Beach and Canyon, Santa Monica
Mountains (Click here
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14 
Topanga Beach and creek from inland
view (Click here
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15 
Las Tunas State Beach and Topanga County
Beach (Click here
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16 
Topanga Creek and Highway 1
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17 
Las Flores Beach (left) and Big
Rock (Click here
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18 
Las Flores Beach and Saddle Peak in
background (Click here
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19 
La Costa and Las Flores beaches
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20 
unstable slopes of Las Flores
Beach (Click here
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21 
unstable slopes from photograph
above (Click here
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22 
Las Flores Beach and Santa Monica
Mountains (Click here
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23 
Pacific Coast Highway and Sandstone Peak in the
background (Click here
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24 
La Costa Beach and Saddle Peak, Santa Monica
Mountains (Click here
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25 
Carbon Beach (Click here
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26 
Malibu Point and Surfrider
Beach (Click here
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Malibu to Point Dume
1 
Malibu Pier (Click here
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2 
Malibu Point, creek, lagoon and delta (Click here
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3 
Malibu Point, pier, Surfrider Beach, and Santa Monica
Mountains (Click here
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4 
Malibu Creek, lagoon, and delta (Click here
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5 
Malibu and vicinity (Click here to view large
file.)
6 
coast near Malibu, and Saddle Peak in background
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7 
coast and Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu
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8 
coast near Malibu, and distinct wave-cut terrace
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9 
coast near Malibu, and plastic sheeting protecting
slopes (Click here
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10 
Malibu pier and Surfrider Beach
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11 
close view of Malibu Creek, lagoon, and delta
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12 
Malibu Point, creek, and pier (Click here
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13 
Malibu Creek and delta viewed from inland (Click here
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14 
Malibu Point viewed from inland (Click
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15 
Malibu pier, delta, and wave refraction (Click here
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16 
Pepperdine University and Malibu coast (Click here
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17 
Pepperdine University campus (Click here
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18 
view of Malibu coast from inland (Click here
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19 
Puerco Beach and Santa Monica Mountains (Click here
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20 
Latigo Point and Dan Blocker State Beach (Click here
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21 
wave refraction along Paradise
Cove (Click here
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22 
Point Dume, Dume Cove, and Paradise Cove (Click here
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23 
Point Dume and Dume Cove (Click here
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24 
Point Dume headland and wavecut terrace (Click here
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25 
Point Dume County Beach, headland, and Dume
Cove (Click here
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26 
Point Dume and view to the east (Click here
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