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Santa Catalina   /sˈæntə kˌætəlˈinə/   Listen
Santa Catalina

noun
1.
An island resort in the Pacific off the southwestern coast of California.  Synonym: Catalina Island.






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"Santa Catalina" Quotes from Famous Books



... curving in position in conformity with the shore, at a distance of twenty to seventy miles from the main-land. These islands are San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, San Nicolas, Santa Catalina, San Clemente, and Los Coronados, which lie in Mexican waters. Between this chain of islands and the main-land is Santa Barbara Channel, flowing northward. The great ocean current from the north flows past Point Conception like a ...
— Our Italy • Charles Dudley Warner

... been made that the waters around the islands of Santa Catalina and San Clemente form important spawning grounds for many food fish, including the great tuna. These waters were fished so destructively that many of the fish were found to be decreasing. This has led to the establishment ...
— Conservation Reader • Harold W. Fairbanks

... their fire towards the doomed city. As the wind was very light, the blockading squadron now manned their boats, and some of them were coming fast, when a raffle of musketry from the small craft sent them to the right about, and presently the chase was safely at anchor under the battery of Santa Catalina. ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... "but big thick one made out of trees; that is the kind they have at Santa Catalina, the island where uncle lives. It has been a long time since he came to see us, not since you were four years old, but mother ...
— History of California • Helen Elliott Bandini

... ICJ allocates San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina islands to Colombia under 1928 Treaty but does not rule on 82 deg.W meridian as maritime boundary with Nicaragua; managed dispute with Venezuela over maritime boundary and Venezuelan-administered Los Monjes Islands near the Gulf of ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.



Words linked to "Santa Catalina" :   Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles, island, City of the Angels, pacific



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