California Gazetteer
Farallon Islands is a physical feature (island) in San Francisco County.
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| Feature Name: | Farallon Islands |
| Category: | California physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Island |
| Description: | In the Gulf of the Farallones and the Pacific Ocean, west of San Francisco. (US-T121) |
| History: | "Sebastian Vizcaino, Spanish explorer, named these islands Los Frayles or ""the friars,"" when he visited them in 1602. Juan Francisco de Bodega y Cuadra, another Spanish explorer, in 1775 renamed the islands Farallones de los Frayles or ""cliffs of the friars."" The present name is an Americanized contraction of Bodega's appellation (US-T121). Farallon means needle or small pointed island (US-T121/Steel File)." |
| County: | San Francisco County |
| Latitude: | 37.7333333 |
| Longitude: | -123.0344444 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Farallon Islands: Farallon Islands.
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