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  About Santa Catalina School
Santa Catalina is an independent Catholic school, dedicated to the education of young people by giving careful consideration to the individual abilities and potential of each student.
Santa Catalina School is located 125 miles south of San Francisco on the Monterey Peninsula, which traces its heritage back to Spanish colonial California, and which today is a professional and recreational community of 185,000.
Santa Catalina School admits students of any race, creed, color, and national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, program, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
www.santacatalina.org /index.cfm/About_Santa_Catalina_School   (318 words)

  
  Santa Catarina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Catarina de Tepehuanes, a town in the state of Durango.
Santa Catarina, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, a freguesia of Caldas da Rainha
Santa Catarina (ship), was a Portuguese carrack that was seized by the Dutch East India Company off the coast of Singapore in 1603.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Catarina   (228 words)

  
 SDNHM - Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake
The Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake is a medium sized, slender snake, growing to a little over 2 feet in length.
The Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake can only be found on Isla Santa Catalina located in the Gulf of California of the southern portion of the Baja California peninsula.
The rattleless tail of a Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake.
www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/herps/crot-cat.html   (488 words)

  
 Cruising Grounds: Channel Islands - Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island is one of 8 Santa Barbara Channel Islands stretching along the So.
Catalina, only 19 miles from the mainland at its closest point, sits on the Pacific tectonic plate, while most of California and the rest of the U.S. are on the North American plate.
Catalina's steep canyon walls create a temperature and climate that have much to do with sustaining types of vegetation that are unique to the Island.
www.marinasailing.com /FTPRoot/harbors/Channel_Islands_Harbor/unknown/catalina.html   (2828 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Santa Catalina Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Santa Catalina Island, often called simply Catalina Island, is a rocky island off the coast of California.
It is only one of the Channel Islands chain to have a permanent civilian settlement; most of the 3,000 residents live in the resort city of Avalon, California.
The sons of Phineas Banning bought the island in 1891 and established the Santa Catalina Island Company to develop it as a resort.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Santa-Catalina-Island   (800 words)

  
 Catalina Island - California Dreamin'
That's because nearly all of Catalina Island is privately owned, preserved by an unusual conservation organization empowered with the funding and authority to maintain Catalina's serenity for present and future generations.
Catalina Island's golden days began in 1919, when a controlling interest was acquired by Chicago millionaire William Wrigley, who had grand plans for his California paradise.
The island's transformation was completed in the mid-1970s, when Santa Catalina Island Company agreed to give Los Angeles County use of 41,000 acres of the island for recreation and park use for 50 years.
www.gluckman.com /Catalina.htm   (2096 words)

  
 Santa Catalina Upper School (Santa Catalina School)
The educational program of Santa Catalina's Upper School is one that fosters excellence in academics, the visual and performing arts, and athletics.
All involved with Santa Catalina are committed and genuinely care about the students and the school.
But Santa Catalina students reach beyond the school's requirements in their pursuit of learning.
www.santacatalina.org /index.cfm/Upper_School   (309 words)

  
 Santa Barbara Islands. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Santa Cruz (98 sq mi/254 sq km) is the largest island of the chain.
Santa Catalina Island is the most economically developed of the islands and is a popular tourist center.
The island fox and the Santa Cruz Island pine are native to the area; large numbers of sea mammals inhabit the waters around the islands, including sea-elephant and sea-lion herds and the California gray whale.
www.bartleby.com /65/sn/SntBarIs.html   (212 words)

  
 Santa Catalina Mtns.
The Santa Catalinas, crowned by 9,157-foot Mt. Lemmon, rise in ragged ridges from the north edge of Tucson to cool forests atop the higher slopes.
Volunteers and foresters of the Santa Catalina Ranger District office provide information on the Santa Catalinas at the Sabino Canyon Visitor Center (5700 N. Sabino Canyon Rd., Tucson, AZ 85750, 520/749-8700, www.fs.fed.us/r3/coronado/scrd, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Sabino Creek, deep in the southern foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, begins its journey on the slopes of Mt. Lemmon, bouncing down through the canyon and supporting the lush greenery and trees in which deer, javelina, coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, birds, and other animals find food and shelter.
www.arizonahandbook.com /catalina.htm   (3036 words)

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