Santa Barbara Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of islands off the SW coast of California.

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Example Sentences

High surf advisories have also been issued from the Central Coast to San Diego County, including Catalina and the Santa Barbara Islands, through Wednesday evening.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2022

The Santa Barbara Islands at that time formed a mountain range upon the edge of the continental land.

From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)

Range.—Breeds in Santa Barbara Islands, California; later occurs on adjoining mainland.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

Pacific; resident locally from Santa Barbara Islands north to Alaska.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

Kindred dialects were spoken also upon the Islands of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, and also, probably, upon such other of the Santa Barbara Islands as formerly were permanently inhabited.

From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley