Mappa stellare personalizzata di Long Beach
33.7701°N, 118.1937°W
On Los Angeles's southern coast, Long Beach stretches its 5 miles of golden beaches between the legendary Queen Mary ocean liner, the Venetian canals of Naples Island, and the Aquarium of the Pacific. California capital of jazz, surfing, and aerospace, it lives with luminous ease. Gift a Long Beach star map — a present as vibrant and maritime as the Pacific coast.
Luoghi emblematici
Queen Mary
33.7701°N, 118.1937°W
The Queen Mary, an ocean liner launched in 1934 by John Brown & Co in Glasgow, was the world's fastest ship from 1936 to 1952 at 1,019 feet and 81,000 tons. Anchored in Long Beach since 1967 as a floating hotel-museum, it carried 16 million passengers and served as a troop transport during World War II under the nickname "Grey Ghost".
Aquarium of the Pacific
33.7701°N, 118.1937°W
The Aquarium of the Pacific, opened in 1998 and the largest in California, holds more than 12,000 animals representing 500 species from across the Pacific, from tropical to subarctic. Its iconic 2019 Honda Pacific Visions wing added a 360-degree immersive theater with 16 million pixels — an educational manifesto on changing oceans, welcoming 1.5 million annual visitors.
Naples Island
33.7701°N, 118.1937°W
Naples Island, an artificial residential archipelago designed in 1903 by Arthur Parson on Venice's model, comprises three islands connected by pedestrian bridges and crisscrossed by 3 miles of navigable canals. Its upscale homes line the waterways where authentic gondolas imported from Italy operate — the West Coast's only professional gondolier service since 1982.
Perché regalare una mappa stellare di Long Beach?
Gifting a star map of Long Beach means immortalizing a moment on the California Riviera, between maritime legends and Pacific sunshine. Whether it was a proposal on the Queen Mary deck, a gondola anniversary at Naples Island, or a sunset at Belmont Shore, this map captures the exact stars of your moment. A present as luminous and salt-tinged as Los Angeles's southern coast.
Il cielo di Long Beach
At 33.8° north latitude on the Pacific coast, Long Beach offers mild evenings favorable to observation and a perfect ocean horizon to track planetary sets. The historic Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles is just 20 miles north, and Mount Wilson Observatory — where Edwin Hubble discovered the universe's expansion in 1929 — dominates the San Gabriel Mountains a 1.5-hour drive away.