For European explorers, finding the Columbia River wasn’t easy. Once they did, the place where the river joined the Pacific turned out to be deadly, earning the nickname 'the Graveyard of the Pacific.' Thousands have died at the Columbia’s bar - but why is the river so deadly?
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