Question: How far off shore is the island that Nichidatsu Fujii's followers began their march on?

 special session for disarmament. In 1981, Nichidatsu Fujii dispatched his followers to march and chant around the globe in support of the U.N. 2nd.  In the U.S. marchers began in New Orleans, L.A. and San Francisco, in Canada marchers began in Montreal and Toronto.  The San Francisco March began on Oct. 21, 1981 with a ceremony on Alcatraz.  13 marchers, being Buddhist followers of Nipponzan-Myōhōji, Native Americans, U.S. and German citizens, began the S.F. march.  marching about 20 mile per day they were hosted each night by community groups in every town and on Native reservations.  many mayors and town councils made proclamations and such honoring the peace and disarmament marchers.  Over the course of the march citizens were moved to join.  By the time they arrived in Chicago the S.F. marchers numbered about 30.  In May 1982 the group of about 40 marchers from Toronto joined the S.F. group in Buffalo N.Y. at the International Peace Bridge doubling the size of the group.  Through the state of N.Y. 10 to 20 people joined the march daily.  When the S.F. group walked across the George Washington Bridge they numbered about 300.  The groups on other march routs also grew over the 7 months.  On June 12, 1982, in Central Park Nipponzan-Myōhōji marchers from the U.S.A., Europe, Africa, and Asia, joined with mobilization for survival organizers and religious and peace groups from around the world in a peaceful demonstration for disarmament of many million people. <SEP> Sevanavank (Armenian: Սևանավանք ; meaning "Sevan Monastery") is a monastic complex located on a peninsula at the northwestern shore of Lake Sevan in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, not far from the town of Sevan.  Initially the monastery was built at the southern shore of a small island.  After the artificial draining of Lake Sevan, which started in the era of Joseph Stalin, the water level fell about 20 metres, and the island transformed into a peninsula.  At the southern shore of this newly created peninsula, a guesthouse of the Armenian Writers' Union was built.  The eastern shore is occupied by the Armenian president's summer residence, while the monastery's still active seminary moved to newly constructed buildings at the northern shore of the peninsula. <SEP> Peace Pagoda, Darjeeling or Darjeeling Peace Pagoda is one of the Peace Pagodas designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds to help unite them in their search for world peace.  It is located in the town of Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal.  Like most of the other Peace Pagodas, it was built under the guidance of Nichidatsu Fujii (1885–1985), a Buddhist monk from Japan and founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist Order. <SEP> Alcatraz Island ( ) is located in San Francisco Bay, 1.25 mi offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.  The small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1934 until 1963.  Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied for more than 19 months by a group of Native Americans from San Francisco, who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation, with public protests through the 1970s.  In 1972, Alcatraz became part of a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.