Lone Pine
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Lone Pine Lake, in the Owen Valley, California. It is situated beneath Mount Whitney and the peaks of the Sierra Nevada can be seen all around.
| Community in east-central California, in the Owens Valley, 140 km/90 mi east of Fresno; population (1990) 1,800. It is a service town for the area, which includes the Inyo Mountains and Death Valley, Mount Whitney, and the Alabama Hills, a favourite location site for Westerns. |
| Manzanar, 14 km/9 mi to the north, was the site of the best-known of the relocation camps in which Americans of Japanese ancestry were interned in 1942–45. At that time a community of 10,000, it is now a scattering of physical reminders. |
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