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I have just returned from a trip to Berlin. While I sort through the new Berlin photos, I will in the meantime add another posting to my series on the Naval Air Station at Alameda.

This smaller hangar is facing what were, prior to their present return to wetlands and wildlife refuge, the runways at Alameda Naval Air Station. The NAS was decommissioned in 1996.

The area encompassed by NAS Alameda was historically a combination of submerged lands, tideland, and dry land. The site is relatively flat, with elevations ranging from sea level to 30 feet above sea level. The property occupies the flattest portion of Alameda island, reflecting its origins as diked bay lands and mud flats. Much of the land now occupied by NAS Alameda was once covered by the waters of San Francisco Bay or was tidal flats. Much of the base was gradually filled using hydraulically placed dredge spoils from the surrounding San Francisco Bay, the Seaplane Lagoon at NAS Alameda, and the Oakland Channel. The first documented filling of tidal and submerged land began sometime during the 1890s.

Technical: Substantially cropped, noise reduced, contrast increased and sharpened.