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	Revillagigedo Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Revillagigedo Islands (or Revillagigedo Archipelago) are a group of islands in the (The largest ocean in the world) Pacific Ocean.
		Socorro is the largest island, with an area of 132 km², and its volcanic peak, Mount Evermann, reaches 1130 m in elevation.
		The Revillagigedo Islands are home to many (A plant that is native to a certain limited area) endemic plant and animal species, and are sometimes called Mexico's "little (A group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life) Galapagos".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/revillagigedo_islands.htm (777 words)

	Revillagigedo Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Revillagigedo Islands (or Revillagigedo Archipelago), not to be confused with Revillagigedo Island of Alaska, are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean at approximately 18° N 112° W.
		There is a naval station in the south of Socorro Island, with a population of 250 (staff and families).
		The three eastern islands are called the inner islands, while Clarión is comparatively far to the west, by more than 200 km, and in a different time zone in comparison with the inner islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revillagigedo_Islands (859 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Islas Revillagigedo dry forests (NT0216)
		The four islands are covered by dry forest and share climatic and ecological characteristics that are responsible for the different vegetation associations found at the islands.
		The Revillagigedo Islands are considered as a priority area for conservation by IUCN (1980), and as an Endemic Bird Area (EBA) by ICBP (1992).
		The islands have received federal protection since 1994, yet an adequate management program is needed: sheep populations should be caged and appropriate control of their grazing habits should be monitored to prevent loss of vegetation.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0216_full.html (1260 words)

	Pacific Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are also many other islands located within the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean, but these are not considered part of Oceania.
		These islands include the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador; the Aleutian Islands in Alaska; the Russian islands of Sakhalin and Kuril Islands; the island nation of Japan, which includes the Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan; the Philippines; the South China Sea Islands; and most of the islands of Indonesia.
		However, it should be noted that the inhabitants of these islands are not considered to be Pacific Islanders and are usually identified with their nearest continent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pacific_Islands (383 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Islas Revillagigedo dry forests (NT0216) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Four oceanic islands were formed by volcanic eruptions on the sea floor millions of years ago: Socorro, Clarion, San Benedicto, and Roca Partida, which collectively make up the Revillagigedo Islands.
		The four Revillagigedo Islands are generally quite dry, with a mean annual precipitation of 24 inches (60 cm) per year.
		Island ecosystems are particularly susceptible to damage from introduced species since most of the plants and animals that have evolved on islands are highly specialized and unable to compete with more aggressive invaders.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0216.html (420 words)

	Revillagigedo Islands: Mexico Slams Door on Long Range Fishing Trips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The incident inside the Revillagigedo Islands Biosphere Reserve Nucleus Zone was reported to Mexican Secretario del Gobernación Santiago Creel, who was present at the islands.
		Mexican opponents to fishing at the islands were committed to applying as much pressure as possible to clear the Revillagigedos of both sport and commercial fishing, a source close to the group said.
		This group of islands, discovered in 1533, and named in 1793 by Capt. James Colnett for the Spanish Conde de Revillagigedo, Juan Francisco Güemes y Horcasistas, now requires the immediate attention of the Mexican government in order to prevent severe damage by commercial fishing interests.
	www.mexfish.com /mexi/mexi/af020405/af020405.htm (2116 words)

	Place Names in Revillagigedo and Gravina Islands: Spanish and Irish heritage of Southeast Alaska
		Revillagigedo was particularly supportive of the exploration of Alaska, sending several well-organized expeditions.
		His name gained more acclaim still in Vancouver Island because, with the main base of his activity as high Commissioner of the Northern Spanish territories, being centered in Nootka, the whole island was named Quadra and Vancouver Island.
		Its small town is scatered on the northwest point of Revillagigedo Island at the beginning of the north end of Tongass Narrows.
	www.explorenorth.com /articles/rey/spanish-irish.html (2568 words)

	Blue Wildlife Fine Art
		Below the surface of the surrounding Pacific Ocean, the islands are renowned for their prolific marine life, including giant mantra rays, many shark species, big pelagic fish such as yellowfin tuna and wahoo, and dolphins and humpback whales.
		Guadalupe Island lies one hundred fifty miles offshore of the Pacific coast of Mexico, south of San Diego and WNW of Punta Eugenia on the Baja California peninsula.
		The island is large, ninety-eight square miles in area and twenty-two miles long, and environmentally isolated, since it is surrounded by water as deep as twelve thousand feet between the island and the mainland of Mexico.
	www.bluewildlife.com /narratives (557 words)

	THE AVIFAUNA OF THE TRES MARIAS ISLANDS, MEXICO
		The other three islands are completely uninhabited except San Juanito which is sporadically occupied by groups of convicts from Maria Madre, for the purpose of harvesting the leaves of the giant Agave for transportation to the henequen mill on Maria Madre.
		With the formation of the island group as a result of the sub- sidence of a former peninsula which probably extended northwestward from the Jalisco coast just north of Banderas Bay, the peninsular population was isolated.
		The islands, (see map) aligned as they are in a northwest-southeast chain, are appar- ently the remnants of a former single island which was approximately 50 miles in length.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v074n04/p0413-p0432.html (17218 words)

	Sea Watch \| Revillagigedo Islands Overview
		Thirty years ago the Revillagigedo Islands were one of the richest archipelagos in the Eastern Pacific.
		While these Islands will never have the draw of the Galapagos, managed carefully they could be the one place in all Mexico that is a breeding ground for tuna and wahoo that could be brought back to pre-industrial fishing levels.
		Unlike many parts of the world’s oceans, the Revillagigedo Islands fall entirely within the territorial limits of one country – there is no need for an international cooperation or legal framework to protect them.
	www.seawatch.org /reports/revillagigedoislands.php (1365 words)

	Revillagigedo Islands
		Revillagigedo Islands, archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, c.450 mi (720 km) W of Colima state, Mexico.
		A volcano on San Benedicto island rose suddenly in 1952.
		The Mexican flag was officially raised over the islands in 1957.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0841645.html (47 words)

	Focus on Puffinus auricularis \| Hawaii Biodiversity & Mapping Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Breeding: auricularis group off western mexico, revillagigedo islands, on isla socorro and isla clarion; bred on isla san benedicto at least until the massive volcanic eruption there in 1952 (everett and anderson 1991, ainley et al.
		Population on isla socorro was estimated at about 1000 pairs in the early 1980s (everett and anderson 1991); another colony was recently found on another part of the island (walter and baptista, cited by spear et al.
		Composed of two groups: auricularis (townsend's shearwater) breeding in the revillagigedo islands off western mexico and newelli (newell's shearwater) breeding in the hawaiian islands (aou 1998).
	www.hinhp.org /printpage.asp?spp=ABNDB07110 (356 words)

	Mexico Stands Tough on Island Fisheries Closure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fletcher said that SAC was continuing to protest the island closure, and that he had received assurances that appeals were still being made through government channels.
		The debated legality of permits issued to sport fishing boats for the Revillagigedo Islands Biosphere Reserve was discussed last week in Mexico City during interviews with several top officials of the key agencies involved, including Lic.
		Thus, the Revillagigedo Island Biosphere Reserve is not a single contiguous area, but is actually four separate areas, including the islands themselves, and about 12 nautical miles of ocean outwards from each island.
	www.bajadestinations.com /afish/afish2002/afish020507/afish020507.htm (2376 words)

	MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,) - Online Information article about MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
		On the Pacific coast there are a number of islands off the rocky shores of Lower California and in the Gulf of California—most of them barren and uninhabitable like the adjacent coast.
		Queretaro 6.=Tabasco the Gulf of Mexico and the Revillagigedo Islands.
		There are no large islands on the coast of Mexico, and most of the smaller ones are unimportant.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /MEC_MIC/MEXICO_Span_Mejico_or_Mexico_.html (6683 words)

	Mexico's Revillagigedo Islands Fishery Redux? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Revillagigedo archipelago was made a protected Biosphere Reserve in 1994, and according to LGEEPA, no one may fish there except local residents, and even they may fish only outside the Biosphere Reserve's Nucleus Zones, which extend about 6 nautical miles out from each island.
		That would require a thorough biological study to determine that the islands' population of tuna actually is highly migratory, something that has been contested in the past, especially by divers.
		The legal obstacles to sport fishing at the Revillagigedos are thought by some to be manageable, if a commitment is made to establish a sound scientific basis for whatever activities are requested, and if established legal channels are followed.
	www.bajadestinations.com /afish/afish2002/afish021118/afish021118.htm (654 words)

	Socorro Log
		San Benedicto, the northern-most island of the archipelago, is located 240 miles south of Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
		The sea all around San Benedicto Island was flat calm, save for a small area about a quarter mile offshore where the ocean seamed to 'boil' at the surface.
		That evening Barbara and Mike presented their report on the effects of commercial fishing at the Islands, and their request that new regulations be enacted to curtail further damage by commercial fishing fleet.
	www.howardhall.com /stories/socorro.html (2905 words)

	CoralRealm .. Drift Gillnet Fleet Decimates Revillagigedo Island Marine Reserve
		In the years since it first became a Marine Park, the Revillagigedo Islands have become the world’s premier area to see and experience the world’s largest Giant Pacific Mantas (up to 2 tons).
		All were within the 12 mile no fishing zone and several were within a mile of the Island.
		They were the "Victor M. Calzas", the "Macapule III", the "Mazatleco", the "Tiburon Maco" and the "Nino" In early afternoon the boats finished pulling their nets and anchored in the East bay of San Benedicto until evening when the went out to put there nets in again.
	www.coralrealm.com /features/mantahavoc.html (820 words)

	Socorro Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These Islands are famous for their Big fish encounters Particularly the friendly Giant Pacific Manta Rays that seem to enjoy having divers rub them.
		The islands of San Benedicto and Socorro along with the rock islet of Roca Partida have come to be called the Mexican Galapagos.
		These islands are volcanic and the underwater terrain is mainly volcanic boulders and ledges.
	www.sdsharkdiving.com /Trips/Socorro/socorro.html (839 words)

	SDNHM - Holacanthus passer (King Angelfish, Passer Angelfish)
		In the bottom photo and in the film, Ocean Oasis, clarion angelfish near the Revillagigedo Islands appear to be cleaning the remoras which are attached to the mantas, as well as the mantas themselves.
		Adults are dark blue-gray and have a vertical white bar on the sides just behind the origin of the pectoral fin.
		It is not known whether this is a natural occurrence or the result of introduction of the Clarion angelfish, Holacanthus clarionensis, from the Revillagigedo Islands by fishing boats.
	www.oceanoasis.org /fieldguide/hola-pas.html (310 words)

	Trip Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Revillagigedo archipelago (of which Socorro is one island) is famous for very close and intimate interaction with giant mantas.
		Shark diving in the Isla Revillagigedo used to be absolutely outstanding but has been in a slow decline over the last 25 years due to fishing pressure.
		The very good news is the islands are now an aggressively protected marine sanctuary and the Mexican government has a navy base on Socorro and a warship on constant patrol in the archipelago.
	www.nautilusexplorer.com /showtrip.asp?TripId=153 (946 words)

	San Benedicto Island--Death Nets
		The Revillagigedo Archipelago is a Mexican reserve, which allows limited sportsfishing but prohibits commercial fishing.
		Early the first day, we swam with the mantas and late in the day we left the famous boiler rock for another trip around the island where we saw the commercial boats deploying their nets.
		Where we were used to seeing dozens of sharks in previous years on each dive, no sharks were seen alive during the entire time we visited this Island.
	www.freedive.net /net/s_ben_nets.htm (475 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Long-rangers holding short end of fish pole
		For nearly 30 years, fishermen have considered trips to the Revillagigedo Islands adventures of a lifetime, a chance to pull on huge yellowfin tuna more than 300 pounds and sleek, hard-fighting wahoo of more than 50 pounds.
		The loss of one long-range trip alone could mean as much as a $100,000 hit to a sport boat operation such as John Klein's Qualifier 105, which had to cancel a trip April 1 due to the closure.
		The Red Rooster III and the Royal Polaris rerouted trips to the French-controlled Clipperton Island, a tiny, ring-shaped, coral atoll located 500 miles farther south of the Revillagigedo Islands, 1,630 miles from San Diego.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/outdoors/20020405-9999_1s5outdoors.html (670 words)

	Marine Fisheries Review: The Great Whales: History and Status of Six Species Listed as Endangered Under the U.S. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Genetic studies have also shown that the humpback whales which breed and calve off the Revillagigedo Islands, Mex., are significantly different from the humpback whales found along Baja California and coastal Mexico (Fig.
		Currently, the feeding area(s) of the whales wintering off the Revillagigedo Islands is unknown.
		The western North Pacific migratory stock of humpback whales is known to calve and breed off Japan during the winter and spring, but their feeding areas during the summer are still in question (Darling et al., 1996; Darling(43)).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3089/is_1_61/ai_62591030/pg_9 (1196 words)

	February 7, 2003
		You might want to try the Revillagigedo Islands, where Pete Boyce of the Sabre 42 Edelweiss III reports he could clearly see his anchor in 65 feet of water.
		The Revillagigedos are a chain of volcanic islands roughly 250 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, which puts them out in the middle of nowhere.
		You can't go to the islands without a permit, and in the past getting a permit has been an uncertain endeavor.
	www.latitude38.com /LectronicLat/2003/0203/Feb07/Feb07.html (1041 words)

	FreediveList Website -- Story of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I was packed and ready to enjoy a 9 day adventure diving the Revillagigedo Islands.
		There was a large concentration of plankton and bait in that area of the Island.
		The small island is about one hundred fifty yards long and dramatically comes up from the ocean floor.
	www.freediver.net /freedivelist/stories/revillagigedo1.htm (1754 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- U.S. fishing interests trying to reopen doors to Revillagigedos
		The San Diego-based long-range sportfishing fleet has proven it can exist without the Mexican-controlled Revillagigedo Islands, but that hasn't stopped Bob Fletcher of the Sportfishing Association of California from working to convince the Mexican government to reopen them.
		But the Mexican government became concerned that both sport and commercial fishing boats (the latter of which went in without permits) were going in closer than 500 meters and fishing in protected waters of the Revillagigedo Biosphere Reserve.
		All fishing was banned, including that of migratory yellowfin tuna and wahoo, the daily double of the long-range fleet.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/outdoors/20031129-9999_z1s29otrpt.html (590 words)

	UNEP-WCMC - Guadalupe Fur Seal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It appears from sealers accounts and archaeological remains that the species may have ranged from the Revillagigedo Islands northward to Point Conception and may have bred on San Miguel and San Nicolas islands (Reeves et al., 1992).
		Incomplete sealing records suggest that perhaps as many as 52,000 fur seals were harvested on Mexican islands between 1806 and 1890 (Reeves et al., 1992).
		It's sole breeding habitat, Guadalupe Island was declared a pinniped sanctuary by the Mexican government in 1975.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /species/data/species_sheets/guadalup.htm (486 words)

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