San Nicolas (island)
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Channel Islands | |
| Geographical location | 33 ° 15 ′ N , 119 ° 31 ′ W | |
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| length | 14.7 km | |
| width | 5.53 km | |
| surface | 58.93 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Jackson Hill 276 m |
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| Residents | ≥ 300 (military) 5.1 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | "Nick Town" | |
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San Nicolas (English San Nicolas Island ) is one of the southern group of the California Channel Islands in the Pacific Ocean . Administratively, the island belongs to Ventura County , but it is administered by the United States Navy .
geography
San Nicolas has a length of almost 15 km, a width of up to 5.53 km and an area of 58.93 km². The island does not have a permanent population, but there are up to 200 people (marines and employees) on it. San Nicolas reaches a height of 276 m above sea level in Jackson Hill . In front of the island in the west is the Begg Rock , popular with divers , which rises 90 m from the seabed and still reaches a height of 4 m above sea level.
history
The Mexican explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno was the first fair-skinned to discover the island on December 6, 1602, and gave it the name La Isla de San Nicolas .
San Nicolas allegedly numerous 1957-2019 were rockets of the US military started. Shortly after the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles was terminated , a medium-range missile test was carried out on August 19, 2019.
The island was also known from Scott O'Dell's books " Island of the Blue Dolphins " and " The Abandoned Boat on the Beach ". They tell the story of an Indian girl who is left alone on the island and who, like Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe , has to face all the dangers of the wilderness there.
Web links
- Page about San Nicolas Iceland (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b United States Census Bureau, San Nicolas Island Block 9, Census Tract 36.04, Ventura County, California (English)
- ↑ Peak excavator
- ↑ Begg Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- ↑ San Nicolas in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- ↑ USA are testing new medium-range missile zsz.ch, accessed on August 20, 2019
- ↑ https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/08/19/pentagon-tests-previously-banned-modified-tomahawk-missile-off-california-coast