Santa Barbara Island

Santa Barbara Iceland is a small, uninhabited island of the California Channel Islands in the Pacific. With just 2.625 km ², it is the smallest island of the archipelago and reaches in Signal Hill, a height of 193 meters above the sea. Santa Barbara Iceland is located approximately 45 kilometers west of Santa Catalina Iceland and 61 kilometers south of the California coast a bit isolated in the center of the Channel Islands. The island is the small Sutil southwest Iceland (0.05 sq km) upstream. Santa Barbara Iceland belongs to the same County and is part of the Channel Islands National Park. The park management has on the island a small visitor contact station.

History

The island was first sighted in 1542 by the Portuguese for Europe explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and named more than 60 years later by Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno after Saint Barbara.