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Island Facts:  Santa Barbara Island
 
  • Located in Santa Barbara County.

  • One square mile in size.

  • Average rainfall is 12 inches per year.

  • The endemic, threatened island night lizard occurs only on Santa Barbara, San Nicholas, and San Clemente Islands.

  • Home to 14 endemic plant species and subspecies that occur only on the Channel Islands. Forms of buckwheat, dudleya, cream cups, and chicory are found only on Santa Barbara Island.

  • The island’s cliffs offer perfect nesting habitat for one of the world’s largest breeding colonies of Xantus’s murrelets, a rare sea bird.

  • Harbor seals, elephant seals, and California sea lions rest and breed on the island.

  • Squatters lived on the island before government leasing began in 1871.
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Things To Do
Things to do on Santa Barbara Island.
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Hiking
Santa Barbara Island Hiking Map and Guide
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1994 pygmy mammoth excavation, Santa Rosa Island  

Did You Know?
The world's most complete pygmy mammoth specimen was discovered on Santa Rosa Island in 1994. These miniature mammoths, only four to six feet tall, once roamed island grasslands and forests during the Pleistocene.

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