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Checked Sep 2026

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The Palos Verdes Peninsula from the air
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Bryanwake Wikimedia Commons Public domain
The Peninsula from an airliner
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formulanone Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Point Vicente Lighthouse on its cliff
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Nhostetler Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
Point Vicente Lighthouse
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Ron Reiring Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Catalina from Point Vicente, March 2026
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Thampithangavelu Wikimedia Commons CC BY 4.0
Wayfarers Chapel, 2018
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Sitao Xiang Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
Malaga Cove Library
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Palos Verdes Library District Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
The Neptune Fountain, Malaga Cove Plaza
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Sgerbic Wikimedia Commons Public domain
Neptune’s fountain against the Malaga Cove hillside
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Abby Lanes Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
Malaga Cove Plaza
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Tracie Hall (tracie7779) Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0
The Lunada Bay coast
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Homeispv Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
A Palos Verdes Estates road
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Ken Lund Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Palos Verdes Estates coastline
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Ken Lund Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
The Portuguese Bend coast
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Ken Lund Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Portuguese Bend landslide and Nature Preserve
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Pricetveyron Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
Portuguese Bend Reserve in early spring
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Williamckenna Wikimedia Commons Public domain
Abalone Cove Shoreline Park
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Fabio Achilli Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
Above Abalone Cove
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Jim Helvey Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0
The Del Cerro Park overlook
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DocFreeman24 Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0
NASA radar view of the Palos Verdes landslides
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NASA Earth Observatory Wikimedia Commons Public domain
South Coast Botanic Garden
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InSapphoWeTrust Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Trump National Golf Club
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Cardinalngold Wikimedia Commons Public domain
Spring on the Rolling Hills slopes, from a horse trail
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Tracie Hall (tracie7779) Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0
A horse trail near Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall
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Tracie Hall (tracie7779) Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0
Gray whale and calf
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NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Wikimedia Commons Public domain
The Palos Verdes blue butterfly
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific Southwest Region Wikimedia Commons Public domain
California gnatcatcher
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B. Moose Peterson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wikimedia Commons Public domain
Frank A. Vanderlip
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National Photo Company Collection, Library of Congress Wikimedia Commons Public domain
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
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National Park Service Wikimedia Commons Public domain
“Palos Verdes: The City of Dreams come true,” 1920s sales piece
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Palos Verdes Project (via the Internet Archive) Wikimedia Commons Public domain
“Your home in Palos Verdes Estates,” 1920s sales brochure
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Palos Verdes Project (via the Internet Archive) Wikimedia Commons Public domain
Marineland and the Peninsula from the air, 1965
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Robert J. Boser Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0
Marineland of the Pacific postcard
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Unknown (postcard) Wikimedia Commons Public domain
The Dominator on the rocks, 1965
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Robert J. Boser Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
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og-image.jpg The Palos Verdes Peninsula from the air
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Bryanwake Public domain
og/rancho-palos-verdes.jpg Point Vicente Lighthouse
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Ron Reiring CC BY-SA 2.0
og/palos-verdes-estates.jpg The Lunada Bay coast
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Homeispv CC BY-SA 4.0
og/rolling-hills.jpg Spring on the Rolling Hills slopes, from a horse trail
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Tracie Hall (tracie7779) CC BY-SA 2.0
og/rolling-hills-estates.jpg A horse trail near Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall
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Tracie Hall (tracie7779) CC BY-SA 2.0
og/events.jpg South Coast Botanic Garden
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InSapphoWeTrust CC BY-SA 2.0
og/explore.jpg The Del Cerro Park overlook
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DocFreeman24 CC BY-SA 4.0
og/history.jpg Marineland and the Peninsula from the air, 1965
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Robert J. Boser CC BY 3.0
og/eat-shop.jpg Neptune’s fountain against the Malaga Cove hillside
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Abby Lanes CC BY-SA 3.0
og/real-estate.jpg A Palos Verdes Estates road
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Ken Lund CC BY-SA 2.0
og/the-peninsula.jpg The Peninsula from an airliner
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formulanone CC BY-SA 2.0
og/schools.jpg Malaga Cove Library
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Palos Verdes Library District CC BY 2.0
og/news.jpg Catalina from Point Vicente, March 2026
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Thampithangavelu CC BY 4.0
og/residents.jpg Malaga Cove Plaza
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Tracie Hall (tracie7779) CC BY-SA 2.0
Everything else

Art, maps, listings & type

Original illustrations

The drawings of Annie's Stand, the Admiral Risty, the Rolling Hills ranch country and the horse and rider on the bridle path (annies-stand-art.svg, admiral-risty-art.svg, rolling-hills-art.svg, rhe-art.svg) are original artwork made for Palos Verdes Life.

Listing photos

Photos on property cards and maps come from the MLS through Properkey (CA DRE #01979718). They belong to the listing brokerages and their photographers, and each listing credits its brokerage.

Maps

Map tiles © Esri — Esri, HERE, Garmin. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. The Eat & Shop pins were compiled from OpenStreetMap and local knowledge.

Software & type

Maps run on Leaflet 1.9.4 (BSD 2-Clause License) and Leaflet.GestureHandling (MIT License), hosted on this site. The typefaces are Marcellus and Figtree, from Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.

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