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Tiburon is the nearest mainland point to Angel Island and a regular ferry service from the Tiburon Ferry Terminal connects to the island. Tiburon features numerous small boutiques and restaurants, catering to local residents and tourists. Most of the town's restaurants are located on or near Main Street, near the Tiburon Ferry Terminal.
Tiburón Island is part of the traditional homeland of some bands (or clans) of the Seri people, for many centuries if not millennia. [5] Author Charles Marion Tyler described the island in his 1885 book The Island World of the Pacific Ocean, saying that "little is known [of the island], a hostile tribe of Indians being in possession."
This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Marin County, California. Highlighting Tiburon in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
Paradise Cay, also known as County Service Area No. 29, [2] is an unincorporated enclave, surrounded by the town of Tiburon in Marin County, California, United States, [1] located 2 miles (3 km) south of Point San Quentin [3] at an elevation of 23 feet (7 m). [1]
Belvedere Lagoon is situated between the two causeways (Beach Road and San Rafael Avenue) that connect Belvedere Island to the town of Tiburon. Belvedere has a total area of 2.42 sq mi (6.3 km 2 ), of which 0.54 sq mi (1.4 km 2 ) is land and 1.89 sq mi (4.9 km 2 ) (78%) is water.
The Tiburon Peninsula is a landform of the San Francisco Bay Area's Marin County and is home to the incorporated municipalities of Tiburon, Belvedere, and a portion of Corte Madera, California. [2] Much of the peninsula is unincorporated , [ 3 ] including portions of the north side and the communities of Paradise Cay and Strawberry .
Belvedere Island (formerly, El Potrero de la Punta del Tiburon, Kashow's Island, Peninsula Island, Promontory Island, and Still Island) [1] is a rocky island in the San Francisco Bay in Marin County, California which was formerly separated by a marsh from the mainland, though has since been linked by two spits.
The Tiburon Peninsula on the northeast side of the bay was part of Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio granted to John Thomas Reed in 1834. According to local sources [6] [7] and period maps, [8] the Bay's original given name was possessive: Richardson's Bay.