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Map of Channel Islands Satellite picture Aerial view of San Miguel NPS Map: San Miguel Island. San Miguel Island (Chumash: Tuqan) [1] is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands, located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean, within Santa Barbara County, California. [2] San Miguel is the sixth-largest of the eight Channel ...
Beach on Santa Cruz Island Beach on San Miguel Island. The Channel Islands (Spanish: islas del Canal, Archipiélago del Norte) are an eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. They define the Santa Barbara Channel between the islands and the California mainland.
A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
Avalon Bay from the north, ca.1900 Avalon Bay around 1910 from the south, before the construction of the Catalina Casino. The sons of Phineas Banning bought the island in 1891 from the Lick estate and established the Santa Catalina Island Company to develop it as a resort. The Banning brothers fulfilled Shatto's dream of making Avalon a resort ...
Historical San Juan Island, modern Cortes Bank, is a high seamount, an island submerged 6 feet and more, 96 mi SW of San Pedro, 111 mi (166 km) W of Pt Loma, and 47 mi (82 km) SW of San Clemente Island. The outermost feature in the Channel Islands, it has been visible as an island from elevations on San Clemente Island on clear days, and known ...
Fructuoso del Real 4,307 acres (1,743 ha) 333 SD Monterey: San Jose y Sur Chiquito: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Marcelino Escobar 8,876 acres (3,592 ha) 373 SD Monterey: Cañada de Pala: 1839 Juan Alvarado: José de Jesús Bernal 15,714 acres (6,359 ha) 373 ND Santa Clara: La Habra: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Mariano Roldan 6,698 acres (2,711 ha) 355 SD La ...
San Miguel (Spanish for "St. Michael") is a unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,336. As of the 2010 census, the population was 2,336.
Two Harbors, colloquially known as "The Isthmus", is a small unincorporated community island village on the island of Santa Catalina Island, California, United States, with a population of 298 (Census of 2000). It is the second center of population on the island, besides the city of Avalon. It is mainly a resort village.