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Avalon (/ ˈ æ v ə l ɒ n /) [note 1] is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend.It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded at the Battle of Camlann.
The settlement in Avalon was then referred to as Timms' Landing in his honor. By the summer of 1883, there were thirty tents and three wooden buildings at Timms' Landing. [14] Tourists enjoying the waters off Catalina in 1889 The Island Mountain Railway at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island was an incline cable railway on the side of a hill. It ...
Avalon is the only incorporated city on Santa Catalina Island, in the California Channel Islands, and the southernmost city in Los Angeles County.The city is a resort community with the waterfront dominated by tourism-oriented businesses.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12-century Vita Merlini introduces the magical island of Avalon, the paradisal "Isle of Apples", as ruled by the nine entirely benevolent enchantress-sisters, known as great healers and capable of shape-shifting and other magic: Morgen, Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Tyronoe, and either Thiten and Thiton or two sisters both named Thitis of whom one of them ...
Over one million people travel to Catalina Island every year, [60] accounting for $166.7 million in annual direct spending on the Island. [61] Avalon is the island's largest population center and offers glass-bottom boat tours of the reefs and shipwrecks of the area, and scuba diving and snorkeling are popular in the clear water. Lover's Cove ...
Part of the British-Belgian section formed an island in the Carboniferous, affecting the disposition of coalfields; this is known by names such as the 'London-Brabant Island'. Its bulk had an effect on the geological structure between the Ardennes and the English Midlands by influencing the subsequent crustal folding resulting from the Variscan ...
Avalon, the mythical lost land or island in Arthurian, Cornish and Welsh legend. Buyan , an island with the ability to appear and disappear in Slavic mythology. Cantre'r Gwaelod , in Welsh legend, the ancient sunken realm said to have occupied a tract of fertile land lying between Ramsey Island and Bardsey Island in what is now Cardigan Bay to ...
It also serves as the island's civil defense shelter, large enough to accommodate Catalina's entire year-round population. Within its walls is stored enough food and water for all Avalon's residents for two weeks. [4] The steel structure of the predecessor Sugarloaf Casino can still be found in Avalon's abandoned bird park.