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(Redirected from Sanctuary Island) Artificial island in California
Strawberry Spit
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Geography
LocationNorthern California
Coordinates37°53′23″N 122°30′04″W / 37.889751°N 122.501013°W / 37.889751; -122.501013
Adjacent toRichardson's Bay
Administration
United States
State California

Strawberry Spit (also Sanctuary Island) is a small artificial island in the San Francisco Bay's Richardson's Bay embayment of Strawberry Lagoon. It is still referred to as Strawberry Spit, although it no longer is technically a spit.

Historically the spit was a haul out area for harbor seals. A channel was built separating Aramburu Island from the mainland to isolate and therefore protect the seals from human disturbances.

The landscape north and landward of Strawberry Spit is dominated by Ring Mountain, whose slopes are strewn with a multitude of boulders that include minerals such as mica, amphibolite and eclogite.

See also

References

  1. Pacific Discovery (1975) Calif. Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 12-15
  2. Allen, SG (1991). "Harbor seal habitat restoration at Strawberry Spit, San Francisco Bay. (Abstract)". Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
  3. C. Michael Hogan (2008) Ring Mountain, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine



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