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	San Miguel Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Miguel Island is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands and the sixth-largest of the eight at 9,325 acres (37.74 km²).
		San Miguel Island, together with numerous small islets around it, is defined by the United States Census Bureau as Block 3010, Block Group 3, Census Tract 29.10 of Santa Barbara County, California.
		San Miguel is part of Channel Islands National Park and lies within Santa Barbara County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Miguel_Island (903 words)

	San Miguel Island
		Fifty-five miles off the coast from Ventura, San Miguel Island is the farthest west of the Channel Islands.
		The island is a tableland of lush grasses and wildflowers, with 27 miles of jagged, rocky coastline dotted with sandy white beaches.
		San Miguel wildflowers are spectacular, due to the abundance of fog and moisture.
	www.truthaquatics.com /smiguel.htm (220 words)

	San Miguel Island
		The topography of San Miguel Islands is quite low in contrast to the rugged peaks, ridges and canyons found on some of the larger islands.
		Waters surrounding the islands are often rough and hazardous due to submerged rocks and shoals.
		The San Miguel Island was bought and sold several times over the next 18 years, when in 1887, one half of the island was sold to William G. Waters for $10,000.
	www.west.net /~scifmail/miguel.htm (1498 words)

	FEMP Renewable Energy: Project Implementation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		San Miguel Island is one of five islands that make up Channel Islands National Park on the coast of southern California.
		The islands comprise 249,353 acres (100,910 hectares) of land and ocean that teems with terrestrial and marine life.
		San Miguel is the third-largest island at 9,325 acres (3,774 hectares).
	www.eere.energy.gov /femp/technologies/renewable_san_miguel_island.cfm (206 words)

	San Miguel Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		San Miguel is the western most island in the Channel Islands, and probably the least visited as well.
		Like Santa Rosa, San Miguel lies in the outer waters of the Santa Barbara Channel and is exposed to cool wind and fog that sweep down from the northern region of the California coast.
		Further south and also to the east, the the islands are progressively influenced by a slightly warmer current that comes up the California coast from the south.
	home.earthlink.net /~kdewet-ipco/sanmiguel.htm (428 words)

	San Miguel Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		San Miguel Island is 14 square miles, and ranks sixth in size of the eight California Channel Islands.
		San Miguel Island is approximately 26 miles from the mainland and its closest neighbor, Santa Rosa is 3 miles to the east.
		In 1980 San Miguel Island became one of the five islands included in the Channel Islands National Park.
	www.west.net /~scifmail/sanmiguel.html (94 words)

	San Miguel Island Photo Gallery
		San Miguel is the westernmost of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands.
		I was carried to the island on a boat run by Island Packers, who regularly transport tourists to and from the island.
		The island is part of the National Park System and a ranger led daily hikes to points of interest, including Point Bennet, which is the main rookery for California sea lions and elephant seals.
	www.redbeardphoto.com /sanmiguel.htm (176 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing the San Miguel Island Fox, Santa Rosa ...
		The island fox is a habitat generalist, occurring in valley and foothill grasslands, southern coastal dunes, coastal bluff, coastal sage scrub, maritime cactus scrub, island chaparral, southern coastal oak woodland, southern riparian woodland, Bishop (Pinus muricata) and Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana) forests, and coastal marsh habitats.
		Island foxes on San Miguel Island were not surveyed again until 1993, when the NPS instituted a long-term population study, which recorded an average density of 20 foxes per mi\2\ (7.7 foxes per km\2\) on two trapping grids and estimated the total population at more than 300 foxes (Roemer et al.
		San Miguel Island is under the jurisdiction of the Navy, but the NPS assists in managing the natural, historic, and scientific values of San Miguel Island through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) originally signed in 1963, an amendment signed in 1976, and a supplemental Interagency Agreement (IA) signed in 1985.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2004/March/Day-05/i4902.htm (17107 words)

	San Miguel information
		San Miguel Island is truly the backcountry of the Channel Islands National Park; it is both remote and exposed to the ever-changing elements at the western portion of the Santa Barbara Channel.
		San Miguel is well known for the strange formations of Caliche, which are sand casts of ancient tree trunks and roots.
		San Miguel is truly a special place, and during the entire season that Island Packers travels to this island you have a chance to view marine mammals including the possibility of humpback and blue whales.
	www.islandpackers.com /sanmiguel.html (991 words)

	Land of the Vanishing Foxes - helping the San Miguel Island foxes survive Animals - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Here on San Miguel, the smallest of the islands, the population plummeted over four years from an estimated 400 animals to about 20.
		Island foxes form a bond for life, and the males help rear the pups, though genetic tests have shown that 25 percent of pups are not in fact related to the male in the pair.
		That the paths of the golden eagle and the island fox should meet at this juncture is only one chapter in a long history of ecological upheavals brought on by humans.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FRO/is_1_133/ai_58914472 (960 words)

	Cardwell Point, San Miguel Island - Christopher E. Brennen
		San Miguel is the westernmost of the Channel Islands and part of the Channel Islands National Park in the Santa Barbara channel.
		Unlike the neighbouring islands to the east, San Miguel is not sheltered from the northwest winds by Point Conception and the mainland.
		The principal attractions on San Miguel are the amazing spectacles of tens of thousands of seals resting, birthing and breeding on the beaches of the island.
	www.dankat.com /swhikes/cardwl.htm (959 words)

	Channel Islands National Park - San Miguel Island (U.S. National Park Service) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wind and weather constantly sweep across the North Pacific to batter the shores of the westernmost of all the islands, San Miguel.
		The island fox, the size of a house cat, is the largest land animal on the island.
		Other outstanding island resources that visitors may experience on San Miguel include the caliche forest (sand-castings of ancient vegetation), fossil bones of the Pleistocene pygmy mammoths that stood 4 to 6 feet at the shoulders, 150 years of ranching history, and numerous shipwrecks.
	www.nps.gov /chis/planyourvisit/san-miguel-island.htm (588 words)

	San Miguel Island - The Kayak Library - Southwind Kayak Center
		It is the most northwesterly of the Channel Islands and is in a direct line to the ocean swells and winds that continually sweep down the Pacific coast.
		The island is about 8 miles long by 4 miles wide; basically a long 500 foot high plateau with one rounded hill at an elevation of 831 feet.
		Herbert Lester who was known as the "King of San Miguel" committed suicide in 1942 and the rest of the family left shortly after.
	www.southwindkayaks.com /library/sanmiguel.html (1447 words)

	San Miguel Island Plant Life
		My zeal for the botanical exploration [of San Miguel Island] had suffered but a slight abatement by remarks vouchsafed on the eve of my departure by some who had been there; one gentleman averring that it was all a naked sand-bank, and another that it bore no trees or bush of any kind....
		If you pass along the island after the summer brown has taken over, San Miguel will seem dead, and any enthusiasm you might have for botanical exploration will be quashed.
		If you take a walking tour of San Miguel Island, visiting the caliche forest will give you some idea of the extensive plant life that covered the island before the nineteenth century.
	www.channelcrossings.com /books/SMtodaysplants.html (1076 words)

	San Miguel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Miguel del Bala is a little community in the rainforest on the Beni River, near Rurrenabaque.
		San Miguel (municipality) is a municipality of Santiago, Chile.
		San Miguel, California is a town in San Luis Obispo County in California and the home of Mission San Miguel Arcángel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Miguel (270 words)

	GORP - Channel Islands, California - San Miguel Island
		San Miguel is about 13 kilometers (8 miles) long and 6 kilometers (4 miles) wide.
		In the 1850's Capt. George Nidever brought sheep, cattle and horses to San Miguel.
		From the mid 1940's to mid 1950's the island was used as a bombing range.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/resource/us_national_park/ca/sanm_chann.htm (701 words)

	California Diving News: San Miguel Island: A Channel Islands Outpost
		San Miguel Island is the sixth largest of the eight Channel Islands, just 14 square miles in area.
		Because of the way the mainland juts out into the Pacific Ocean, however, it isn’t the farthest from the coast, San Nicolas Island is. Miguel is 26 miles south of Point Conception and 55 miles west of Ventura.
		San Miguel is one of the five islands (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa and Santa Barbara Islands are the others) that form the Channel Islands National Park and Marine Sanctuary.
	www.saintbrendan.com /cdnapr01/smiguel4.html (801 words)

	San Miguel Island - photos of California--Southern on Worldisround
		San Miguel Island- Channel Islands National Park is the western most Island of the chain.
		San Miguel is very windy at all times and can be foggy quite often so prepare accordingly.
		Point Bennet on the west end of San Miguel is one of the largest Pinniped..
	www.worldisround.com /articles/19549/index.html (355 words)

	GEOLOGIC MAP OF SAN MIGUEL ISLAND, CALIFORNIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A 1:24,000-scale full-color geologic map of San Miguel Island, recently mapped and compiled by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr., is now published.
		Conception, San Miguel Island is 14 km long east to west, and 2 to 7 km wide north to south.
		San Miguel exposes a series of Cretaceous to Miocene marine, mostly clastic sedimentary rocks, including bimodal Miocene volcanics, volcaniclastic rocks and associated intrusive rocks.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001CD/finalprogram/abstract_4066.htm (295 words)

	Paddle Sports of Santa Barbara - Kayaking in Santa Barbara - Channel Island Kayaking Trips - San Miguel Island - ...
		San Miguel Island is the westernmost island on the Channel Islands chain.
		However, when the conditions are favorable, this island is one of the most amazing.
		This is a three-day camping trip, and all the camping occurs on the dive-vessel in bunk-room style living quarters.
	www.kayaksb.com /sanmiguel.html (282 words)

	Defenders of Wildlife - Wildlife - Swift Fox
		On San Nicholas Island, as with all the island fox populations, evidence exists of exposure to disease.
		The facility on San Miguel currently houses 38 foxes, ten of which are pups born in the year 2003.
		The primary reason for listing the San Miguel, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz foxes is the decline due to predation by golden eagles, which were initially drawn to the islands by the presence of non-native pigs.
	www.defenders.org /wildlife/new/meso/island.html (2102 words)

	San Miguel Island Channel Islands National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What to see: San Miguel is famous worldwide for its pinniped viewing.
		In the winter, as many as 50,000 individual seals and sea lions can be seen at one time on Point Bennett, where they breed and where the pups are born.
		Fossil bones of the Pleistocene pygmy mammoth, archeological sites of human habitation more than 10,000 years old, and a memorial to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the European discoverer of California, are all found on the island.
	www.nps.gov /chis/smipage.htm (277 words)

	Shark Park, San Miguel Island
		San Miguel Island is relatively small, about 7 miles at the biggest stretch.
		It is the furthest north island in the Channel Islands chain.
		My buddy had gotten on the boat and decided that she would rather be on the bigger boat, the Vision.
	diver.net /seahunt/d_shkprk.htm (1488 words)

	San Miguel - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		San Miguel del Bala - A little community in the rainforest on the Beni River, near Rurrenabaque.
		San Miguel (Ecuador) - A town in Ecuador.
		San Miguel Island - An island off the coast of California.
	wikitravel.org /en/San_Miguel (119 words)

	California Diving News - Point Bennett: San Miguel Island -Scuba Dive Spot
		Even then, navigation through the treacherous shoals of San Miguel's west end requires the full attention of an experienced captain and crew.
		The entire west end of San Miguel falls within the San Miguel Ecological Preserve, a five-mile strip of shoreline which extends from Castle Rock on the north side of the island to Judith Rock on the south.
		The west end of San Miguel Island is a true wilderness, home to some of the most amazing creatures on earth.
	www.saintbrendan.com /cdnsept99/miguel9.html (1051 words)

	Friends of the Island Fox
		Currently on San Miguel Island there are 20 foxes in captivity and 77 in the wild, for a subspecies total of 97.
		Educating the public about the complex natural balance on the Channel Islands - the importance of removing feral pigs, reintroducing bald eagles and relocating golden eagles - is vital to creating an informed public and the survival of the island fox.
		This subspecies of island fox is not listed as endangered but is still vulnerable to population declines because it is found only on San Clemente Island and no where else in the world.
	www.islandfox.org (2334 words)

	SAN MIGUEL ISLAND PHOTOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The following photos were sent by Ian Williams a dedicated Park Ranger from San Miguel Island.
		San Miguel Island is in the Channel Island Chain and is located off of the coast of California not too far from Santa Barbara.
		Williams took some of these photos on 21 August, 2003 which was the fifteenth anniversary of the scuttling of the Tortuga.
	members.tripod.com /turn2/San-Miguel-2.html (154 words)

	San Miguel Island Geology
		Sediments brought to the sea by the rivers of the nearby mainland fell slowly through the water to the bottom in a silent oceanic snowfall lasting tens of millions of years.
		While the island was still submerged, roughly ten million years ago, a diatom bloom filled the water and the sediments were full of the skeletons of these creatures.
		The entire Santa Barbara Channel, the islands, and the Santa Ynez mountains rest on a granitic micro-continent rotated by movement along the fault, turning like a ball bearing between the Pacific plate and the North American plate.
	www.channelcrossings.com /books/SMgeology.html (495 words)

	Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cabrillo fought as a captain of crossbowmen in the battles between the Aztecs and the Spanish.
		The expedition reached San Pedro on October 6, Santa Monica on the 9th, San Buenaventura on the 10th, Santa Barbara on the 13th and Pt.
		There they were caught by a storm and blown all the way back to San Miguel Island by March 5.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /bio/cabrillo/cabrillo.htm (747 words)

	ALBAY TOURISM: San Miguel Island Marine Reserve
		The marine reserve was founded by the Coastal Resource Management Project in San Miguel Island (COREMAP-SMI), which is a multi-disciplinary approach to developoing and managing habitats and resources through the establishment of marine fishery reserves in the context of a community-participated co-managed scheme.
		The reseve is an area where fish and the reef are protected from such damaging techniques, and fish populations are allowed to prosper.
		The reserve is also the site of ongoing research by the BUTC research team to monitor the fish populations and fisheries productivity of San Miguel Island.
	tourism.albay.gov.ph /sanmiguelisland.htm (257 words)

	Wilson Rock, San Miguel Island
		The standard tank for the hunters on all boats became the steel 95 and it was largely because of the fill policy of Truth Aquatics.
		For me, the time to dive the Truth, is in summer when they may be able to get to San Miguel Island or after November when I like to go to Talcott Shoal.
		It is believed that this small island, perhaps 150 yards across, but 150 feet tall, is where Juan Cabrillo was buried.
	diver.net /seahunt/d_truth.htm (2471 words)

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