Treasure Island, San Francisco
Treasure Iceland is an artificially reclaimed island with an area of 3.025 km ² and 1,168 inhabitants in the San Francisco Bay, California. A narrow isthmus, the island is connected with the natural Yerba Buena Iceland and is therefore approximately in the middle of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
History
The material for the construction of the island came among others from the rubble of the great earthquake in San Francisco in 1906. 1939 she was ordered for the " Golden Gate International Exposition ," the former World's Fair, built and located between San Francisco and Oakland. The building of the Treasure Iceland museum is now one of the few remaining from the time of the Great Exhibition Building and is now used mainly as an office building.
The island, which was built with funds from the federal government, was originally intended to serve as an airport for flying boats of Pan American World Airways. After the World's Fair an airfield of the United States Navy there was, however, set up after they had the city of San Francisco in exchange Mills Field offered. The city agreed and established in Mills Field today's San Francisco International Airport. During the Second World War, the island part of the Treasure Iceland Naval Base, which served primarily as a training ground for electronics and radio specialists was. In addition, the island was the most important embarkation of the Navy in the Pacific region.
Since 1996, Treasure Iceland is changed along with the Presidio in the public sector. The residential buildings, which were used by the military staff earlier, are popular especially in low-income and students as a place of residence. In 2000, there were according to the state of that census on the island completely bordered by a promenade around 1,400 people.
In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, the facilities have been used on the island for filming of various movies, so among other things for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Flubber and The 200 years man.
A change of use for the public is planned for 2008. According to the Environmental Protection Agency groundwater and air with asbestos, plutonium and radium are loaded, whereby the conversion must be preceded by comprehensive environmental protection measures.
Art
Since April 2011, the 12 meter high sculpture " Bliss Dance", which was built on Treasure Iceland, exhibited at the Western Promenade. Before Bliss Dance was shown at the Burning Man Festival.