Avalon Bay, Santa Catalina island, California, 7th June 1998
Santa Catalina island (previously Pimugna), has been a delightful star studded tourist area for sometime. However it was first inhabited from about 7000 BC by Pimugnans or Pimuvit. The Pimugnans were known for mining, working soapstone and trading it. Later the Native American tribe Tongva. The island was claimed by Spain 1542 but colonisation of the island by the Spanish only started after 1602 which caused a decline of the native population largely due to diseases brought by Europeans. The Franciscans removed the remaining Native Americans to the mainland. Since then Catalina has come under Mexican rule, and then became a part of the United States from 1848. Picture taken from airplane, 7th June 1998
Date: 07/06/1998
Location: Avalon Bay, Santa Catalina island, California
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
