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.
Avalon, California
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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 do
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…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 Harbors. University of Southern California also houses its USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies…
Avalon Harbor from Chimes Tower
Avalon Bay from the north, ca.1900
Avalon Bay around 1910 from the south, before the construction of the Catalina Casino
Avalon town and harbor