Channel Islands (California)
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The Channel Islands 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 is
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Beach on Santa Cruz Island
Beach on San Miguel Island
Tomols or te'aats are Chumash and Tongva boats used to travel throughout the islands and to the mainland.
Santa Catalina Island, often shortened to Catalina Island or Catalina, is a rocky island, part of the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island co
Channel Islands (California)
…Park in 1980. The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary encompasses the waters six nautical miles (11 kilometers; 6.9 miles) off these islands. Santa Catalina Island is the only one of the eight islands with significant permanent civilian settlements—the resort city of Avalon and the unincorporated community of Two…
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Tourists enjoying the waters off Catalina in 1889
Hotel Metropole in 1901