Talk:Channel Islands (California)

message: They are uninhabited (not counting military personnels, which are not permanent settlers)? --Menchi 07:19, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Inhabitation question

message: Why are they called Channel Islands, since they are not in a channel? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tarquin (talk • contribs) 04:26, 10 July 2005. 
:I am just taking a very wild guess, but I do know that there is a very deep "channel" between the islands and the mainland. That might be the source for the name. BlankVerse ∅ 08:04, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There should be a geology section that discusses their formation. It would be a good place for the answer to this question.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.89.77.40 (talk) 15:26, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: Hi there, is it true that Mexico have/has claims over ths Channel Islands?
I've heard talks about this recently, In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua there is a Mexican History Fair going on, where a Peruvian historian Ricardo Melgar stated that Seven Islands were taken away by the U.S for Military Strategic Reasons during WWII and Mexico has not claimed them due to fear of worsenin bilateral relation. This will sure start another controversy in Mexico in the following days. The Islands that supposelly belong to Mexico are San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Santa Bárbara, San Nicolás, Santa Catarina and San Clemente. The link below is one of the news released in Mexico on the 19th of October, 2007 article is ion Spanish.
http://mx.news.yahoo.com/s/20102007/38/nacional-m-xico-debe-reclamar-soberan-7-islas-tomadas-ee.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.220.125.111 (talk) 07:23, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Islands actually belong to the Chumash people who are indigenous to the islands and have lived continuously on the islands for 16,000 years. 2600:8802:571F:2700:B8F5:4DC9:8A5C:8AFB (talk) 05:09, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mexican Claims 

message: This article talks briefly about a few of the native species. I think that it also should briefly cover the problems of the non-native goats, pigs, grasses, etc. BlankVerse 08:45, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A problem with this article is that so many topics are covered in the individual island articles. Likewise, the island articles often have to repeat the same information. There's no good way around it. As the "master article", perhaps it's justifiable to have here snippets or summaries from all the island articles on a particular topic even if that is duplication. -Willmcw 10:00, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's all I wanted was some brief discussion that said all of the islands have had some impact from non-native species, and in several cases there have been steps taken to eliminate (goats on San Clemente) or reduce (Bison on Santa Catalina) the impact of the non-native species. BlankVerse 14:55, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-native species

message: Please see history with a time just prior to this post. Ronbo76 17:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems rather silly to me to go thorugh and just change sq. kilometers to sq. miles (but then we keep getting anon IPs and n00bs that convert American English to British English, or vice versa, so I'm not surprised that it was done). What  should have done is changed the table so that it had both measurements. It also looks like they might have messed up the conversion for Santa Barbara Island based on the data in the Wikipedia article, but that should be checked with an outside source. BlankVerse 13:52, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please check article - anon IP unsourced edits 

message: I am researching the origins of white settlement of Southern California and found an interesting account of a mysterious human skull that was found in the Channel Islands back in the early 19th century. 
The story was published in the (now defunct) Los Angeles Herald as a first person narrative essay about early colonization of the area.
Legend has it that a alien-like scull with double rows of teeth was kept on Santa Cruz Island by the Chumach Indians at the time of early Spanish Settlement. I'm not sure if it was an ancient fossilized skull or more recent to that era.
This account is documented and I suspect somewhere in the archives of the Huntington Library (San Marino) there may be some answers. 
Can anyone help verify this account? I would like to learn more about this mysterious artifact and what became of it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.100.182.6 (talk) 13:35, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The only skulls and remains found on the islands are the paleocoastal ancestors of the Chumash people found the past 16,000+ years and they have no oral history of these so called Alien skulls with double rows of teeth, which in reality, is a White Euro settler myth that only came about recently within historical times. 2600:8802:571F:2700:B8F5:4DC9:8A5C:8AFB (talk) 05:16, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Channel Island Legends and Mysteries. 

message: The section 'Military use' has the following sentence: San Nicolas has had a book written about the indigenous peoples living on the island. It is called Island of the Blue Dolphins, which seems irrelevant to me and should probably be removed. Can someone who actually know about this area more close-up please decide if there's any particular reason to mention this book, whether it should be removed or not, or perhaps expand or move to a more relevant section. -- Katana (talk) 20:02, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant book reference 

message: Currently, the History section states, " Archaeological sites on the island provide a unique and invaluable record..." but doesn't say which island.  If anybody knows which island (or islands) the sites are on, it should be added.  JDZeff (talk) 06:19, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably all of the islands. I know for certain San Nicolas and San Miguel. San Nicolas Island was was the most intriguing, due to that island's bizarre history in the first half of the 19th century. The last I heard, though,  archaeology on the island was halted by some band of Mission Indians that claimed next-of-kin to the now-extinct Nicoleño people, which can never be proven nor disproven, so they got their way... Firejuggler86 (talk) 22:11, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archaeology question 

message: I've always heard of them being referred to as just the "Channel Islands". What's the source for the name "Channel Islands of California" that's used in this article?  The park for example is called Channel Islands National Park. There's one list related to the islands, List of California Channel Islands wildlife. --Marc Kupper|talk 09:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Living as I do in Southern California, I agree that they're most commonly known simply as the Channel Islands.  However, there are two problems: first, they aren't in a channel, they define it making them barrier islands, not channel islands.  Second, and more important, calling them that would cause confusion with the more famous set of Channel Islands in the English Channel.JDZeff (talk) 01:23, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The of California appears to be there to distinguish from the other Channel Islands. As the islands are commonly known as Channel Islands it seems a better disambig title would be Channel Islands (California). As to the barrier island bit: I agree that their name is a technical misnomer, however that is the name they are known by and common names often defy scientific logic. Vsmith (talk) 01:35, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the islands 

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message: At , I requested input on moving Channel Islands to something like Channel Islands (Europe) and making Channel Islands a dab page. Contributions to the discussion would be welcome. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 17:11, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move of Channel Islands to a dab page 

message: This needs some context, or explanation, or at the very least, a citation.
These islands are not even included in the "Pacific Islands" -- at least, not per the term as used in the article Pacific islands.
There are other islands at the eastern edge of the Pacific that are further east, such as in the List of islands of Mexico, the List of islands of South America#Ecuador, etc.
Mang (talk) 01:21, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "They are the easternmost islands in the Pacific Island group." 

message: were these Channel Islands (California) logged/clear cut which produced a barren landscape? what age is the Torrey Pine image on this page? what age are the Torrey Pines currently on Channel Islands (California)? i've searched internet too, many official sources, none address if clear cutting occured. clear cutting is the first thing i think of when seeing landscapes around the world. 
i'm going to see if i can add the explore.org live cam on Mount Diablo Santa Cruz Island, California. CrushedCoral (talk) 15:25, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flora