Yerba Buena Island

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The Yerba Buena Iceland is a rocky island in the bay of San Francisco, in the U.S. state of California in the United States. Here live 210 inhabitants in an area of 80 hectares.

It is located in the bay between San Francisco and Oakland. Due to the small island of Interstate 80 passes through a tunnel. From the western and eastern shores of the Bay, the highway crosses the two-piece San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the rocky island and then through the tunnel. A narrow isthmus, the island is connected to the artificially raised Treasure Iceland.

The Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala sailed in 1775 in the bay of San Francisco, and gave the islands, he found there, Spanish names. He described the Heue Yerba Buena Iceland called island ( "because of on this island occurring in abundance Birds" ) with Isla de Alcatraces. On today's Alcatraz was this name until 1826 by the British naval captain and geographer Frederick William Beechey in the form Alcatrazes Iceland transmitted.