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On its western end it is drained by the Carquinez Strait which connects to San Pablo Bay, a northern extension of San Francisco Bay.
In addition to the major bridges at the Carquenez Strait, it is spanned in its center by the Benecia - Martinez bridge and at its eastern end by the highway 160 crossing between Antioch and Oakley.
It is especially famous for hosting the anchorage of the Ghost Fleet , a collection of U.S. Navy reserve merchant ships, in the period following World War II. These were mostly removed for sale as scrap metal during the 1990s (being towed to Japan and mostly returned as automobiles). This location also held at anchor the famous Glomar Explorer after its once secret but now famous attempt to recover a lost, sunk SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 submarineUSS Los Angeles (SSN-688)|USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized boat that travels under water, usually for military or scientific purposes. Most major navies of the world employ submarines. Submarines are also used for marine and freshwater science. The Glomar Explorer has now been activated for other duties fitting its original "cover", which was deep ocean seabead mineral exploration and recovery.
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