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Yerba Buena Island (Calif.)

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005006832
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2005006832#concept

Codes

n-us-ca

Variants

Goat Island (Calif.)
Island of Yerba Buena (Calif.)
Wood Island (San Francisco, Calif.)

Broader Terms

Islands--California

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Yerba Buena Island Label from public data source Wikidata

Sources

found: Dowling, Thomas H. Memorial of Thomas H. Dowling, and accompanying papers in regard to his claim to the Island of Yerba Buena, in the harbor of San Francisco, California, 1871:t.p. (Island of Yerba Buena) p. 13 (sometimes called Goat Island)

found: Columbia Lippincott gaz.(hdg.: Yerba Buena Island; in San Francisco Bay, between San Francisco and Oakland; midpoint of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge)

found: GNIS, 12 Oct. 2005(Yerba Buena Island; San Francisco Co., CA; 37°48ʹ35ʺN 122°21ʹ57ʺW; variants: Goat Island, Wood Island; also another Wood Island in another county)

found: GeoNames [algorithmically matched](island; 37°48ʹ36ʺN 122°21ʹ58ʺW)

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Change Notes

2005-10-12: new
2013-05-02: revised

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