Golden Gate, a channel 2 miles wide, forming the entrance to the magnificent Bay of San Francisco, and washing the northern shore of the peninsula on which San Francisco is built. It is defended by Fort Point, at the north-western extremity of the peninsula, and by a fort on Alcatraz Island, inside the entrance.
Golden Gate
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 285
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