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Santa Rosa Island (Spanish: Isla de Santa Rosa; Cruzeño Chumash: Wi'ma) [1] is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres (215.27 km 2 or 83.118 sq mi). Santa Rosa is located about 26 miles (42 km) off the coast of Santa Barbara, California in Santa Barbara County and is part of Channel Islands National Park .
San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Anacapa Island comprise the unsubmerged portions of Santa Rosae today. This island was about 5 miles offshore. It broke up between about 11,000 and 9,000 years ago, and the present northern Channel Islands took their shape after the continental ice sheets melted and sea levels rose by about 100 meters.
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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
The islands are off the coast of Southern California, near Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara. The closest major airport is Los Angeles International Airport. Santa Barbara Airport and ...
Aligned with the Santa Monica mountains, the Northern Channel Islands form a mountain system 130 miles long. This island chain appears to be a faulted east-west trending anticline. Major faults include the Santa Cruz Island Fault and the Santa Rosa Island Fault. [11]: 1, 9
For instance, a Spanish map from 1548 depicts California as a peninsula, [8] while a 1622 Dutch map depicts California as an island. [citation needed] A 1626 Portuguese map depicts the land as a peninsula, [citation needed] while a 1630 British map depicts it as an island. [9] A French map from 1682 only shows the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
Santa Cruz Island measures 22 miles (35 km) long with an average width of 4 miles (6.4 km), covering 96.5 square miles (250 km 2). It is the largest Channel Island. The island is now on public land, but was previously the largest privately owned island of the continental United States. Part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. Santa Rosa Island