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Catalina Island Museum

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Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Catalina Island Museum
Phone:
+1 310-510-2414

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Santa Catalina Island is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island name is often shortened to Catalina Island or just Catalina. The island is 22 mi long and 8 mi across at its greatest width. The island is located about 29 mi south-southwest of Long Beach, California. The highest point on the island is 2,097 ft atop Mount Orizaba. Santa Catalina is part of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and lies within Los Angeles County. Catalina was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island Pimugna or Pimu and referred to themselves as Pimugnans or Pimuvit. The first Europeans to arrive on Catalina claimed it for the Spanish Empire. Over the years, territorial claims to the island transferred to Mexico and then to the United States. During this time, the island was sporadically used for smuggling, otter hunting, and gold-digging, before successfully being developed into a tourist destination by chewing gum magnate William Wrigley, Jr. beginning in the 1920s. Since the 1970s, most of the island has been administered by the Catalina Island Conservancy. Its total population in the 2010 census was 4,096 people, 90 percent of whom live in the island's only incorporated city, Avalon. The second center of population is the unincorporated village of Two Harbors at the island's isthmus. Development occurs also at the smaller settlements of Rancho Escondido and Middle Ranch. The remaining population is scattered over the island between the two population centers.
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