Bird Island
Bird Island is an islet in Contra Costa, California. Bird Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood Marina Bay, as well as near Easter Hill Village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brooks Island and SS Red Oak Victory.
Brooks Island
Island
Photo: Rupert Clayton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brooks Island Regional Preserve includes both the 75-acre of Brooks Island above the low-tide line and 300 acres of the surrounding bay. The only public access to the island is via an East Bay Regional Park District naturalist tour.
SS Red Oak Victory
Photo: Leonard G., CC0.
SS Red Oak Victory is a U.S. Victory ship of the Boulder Victory-class cargo ship used in the Second World War. She was preserved to serve as a museum ship in Richmond, California, and is managed by the Richmond Library of History and located near the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is a United States national historical park located in Richmond, California, near San Francisco.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marina Bay and Stege.
Marina Bay
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marina Bay, is located in Richmond's protected Richmond Inner Harbor. It was developed in the mid-1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct World War II-era Kaiser Shipyards.
Stege
Locality
Stege, founded in 1876, was an unincorporated community in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The town has now been annexed and absorbed by the cities of Richmond and El Cerrito, California. Stege is situated 2½ miles northeast of Bird Island.
Point Richmond
Neighborhood
Point Richmond, also sometimes referred to locally as The Point, is a neighborhood in Richmond, California, United States, near the eastern end of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, between Interstate 580 and the San Francisco Bay. Point Richmond is situated 2½ miles northwest of Bird Island.
Bird Island
- Type: Islet
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Contra Costa, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.89575° or 37° 53′ 45″ northLongitude
-122.35928° or 122° 21′ 33″ westOpen location code
849VVJWR+77OpenStreetMap ID
way 157449982OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
5328782
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