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Santa Rosa Island (Spanish: Isla de Santa Rosa; Cruzeño Chumash: Wi'ma) [1] is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres (215.27 km 2 or 83.118 sq mi). Santa Rosa is located about 26 miles (42 km) off the coast of Santa Barbara, California , in Santa Barbara County and is part of Channel Islands National Park .
The portion of Santa Rosa Island transferred is now known as Okaloosa Island. The twelve-mile (19 km) long beach road onto U.S. Air Force property, west of the Okaloosa Island portion of Santa Rosa Boulevard, was unguarded and accessible into the 1990s, but heightened security concerns have since led to it being guarded or blocked at all times.
Santa Rosa Island holds two groves of the Torrey pine subspecies Pinus torreyana var. insularis, which is endemic to the island. Torrey pines are the United States' rarest pine species. [35] The islands also house many rare and endangered species of plants, including the island barberry, the island rushrose, and the Santa Cruz Island lace pod.
Santa Rosae had a population of pygmy mammoths (Mammuthus exilis), which became extinct roughly 13,000 years ago. On Santa Rosa Island was found the ~13,000-year-old skeleton of Arlington Springs Man, among the oldest human remains yet found in North America. As Santa Rosae was not connected to the mainland at the time, this shows that Paleo ...
Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa (1722–1752): this was on the western end of Santa Rosa Island near the site of present Fort Pickens. After hurricanes battered the island in 1741 and 1752, [3] the settlers relocated to the mainland. [13] Another hurricane in 1762 destroyed the remnants on the island. [3]
October 8: Battle of Santa Rosa Island. 1862 March 24: Skirmish of the Brick Church. June 30 – July 1: Battle of Tampa. October 1–3: Battle of St. John's Bluff. 1863 October 16–18: Battle of Fort Brooke. 1864 February 24: Battle of Olustee. March 1: Skirmish at Cedar Creek. March 6: Battle of Natural Bridge. August 17: Battle of Gainesville.
Barrier island Cape St. George Island: Franklin: Barrier island Casey Key: Sarasota Barrier island Captiva Island: 4 square miles (10 km 2) Lee: Barrier island Cayo Costa: 2,506 acres (1,014 ha) Lee Barrier island Cedar Key: Levy One of the Cedar Keys Chokoloskee Island: 0.23 square miles (0.60 km 2) Collier In the Ten Thousand Islands City Island
Arlington Springs Man [nb 1] was an ancient Paleoindian, [1] most likely a man, [2] whose remains were found in 1959 on Santa Rosa Island, one of the Channel Islands located off the coast of Southern California.