Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier

California, United States · pier

Photo: Tim Buss from North County, San Diego, California, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and cropped.

Scripps Pier, formally Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, is a research facility operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, part of the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California, United States. At 1,084 feet in length, it is one of the longest research piers in the world. The modern Scripps Pier was completed in 1988, but research activity had been taking place on its predecessor as far back as 1916. It is named after Ellen Browning Scripps.

Text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), shortened.

Type
pier
Built
1988
Coordinates
32.8666, -117.2558

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