Yerba Buena Island

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Yerba Buena Island
Treasure Island (above) and Yerba Buena Island (below) with Interstate 80 in the tunnel
Treasure Island (above) and Yerba Buena Island (below) with Interstate 80 in the tunnel
Waters San Francisco Bay
Geographical location 37 ° 48 '38 "  N , 122 ° 21' 54"  W Coordinates: 37 ° 48 '38 "  N , 122 ° 21' 54"  W.
Yerba Buena Island (California)
Yerba Buena Island
surface 80 ha
Residents 210
263 inhabitants / km²
Yerba Buena Island with the Bay Bridge
Yerba Buena Island with the Bay Bridge

The Yerba Buena Iceland is a rocky island in the San Francisco Bay , in the State of California in the United States . 210 inhabitants live here on an area of ​​80 hectares.

It is located in the bay between San Francisco and Oakland . Interstate 80 runs through the small island through a tunnel . From the west and east banks of the bay, the highway leads over the two-part San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the rocky island and then through the tunnel. The island is connected to the artificially raised Treasure Island via a narrow isthmus .

The Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala sailed into the Bay of San Francisco in 1775 and gave Spanish names to the islands he found there. He referred to the island today called Yerba Buena Island ("because of the abundance of birds on this island") with Isla de Alcatraces . This name was transferred to today's Alcatraz in 1826 by the British naval captain and geographer Frederick William Beechey in the form of Alcatrazes Island .

Web links

Commons : Yerba Buena Island  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Yerba Buena Island neighborhood in San Francisco, California (CA), 94130 detailed profile
  2. California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names (Third Edition), Erwin Gustav Gudde, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969, p. 6.
  3. ^ A History of Alcatraz Island: 1853-2008 , Gregory L. Wellman, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston SC, Chicago IL, Portsmouth NH, San Francisco CA, 2008, pp. 7 and 8.