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Image Name image06.jpg Thumbnail Location Channel Islands National Park Description Close to the California mainland, yet worlds apart, Channel Islands National Park encompasses five remarkable islands (Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel, and Santa Barbara) and their ocean environment, preserving and protecting a wealth of natural and cultural resources. Isolation over thousands of years has created unique animals, plants, and archeological resources found nowhere else on Earth and helped preserve a place where visitors can experience coastal southern California as it once was. Date Not known Source http://www.nps.gov/storage/images/chis/Webpages/originals/361.jpg Author National Park Service Digital Image Archives Permission All photographs and images in this archive [National Park Service Digital Image Archives] are public domain images. You are free to use these images without a release from the National Park Service. However, the photographs and images must not be used to imply National Park Service endorsement of a product, service, organization or individual. Attribution By National Park Service Digital Image Archives [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons