Shelter Island
Shelter Island is an island in San Diego County, Southern California, California. Shelter Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood La Playa, as well as near Little Portugal.Places of Interest
Highlights include Naval Air Station North Island and Harbor Island.
Naval Air Station North Island
Aerodrome
Naval Air Station North Island, also known as NAS North Island, is a United States Navy installation located at the north end of the Coronado peninsula on San Diego Bay in San Diego, California.
Harbor Island
Island
Harbor Island is a man-made peninsula created in 1961 from harbor dredgings, located in San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. It lies between Shelter Island and downtown San Diego, and is directly across Harbor Drive from San Diego International Airport.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is a federal military cemetery in San Diego, California. It is located on the grounds of the former Army coastal artillery station Fort Rosecrans and is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point Loma-Ocean Beach and La Playa.
Point Loma-Ocean Beach
Photo: Weedwhacker128, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sitting at the mouth of San Diego Bay on a peninsula west of the city's airport, Point Loma offers a pleasant diversion from the city's busy tourist-filled neighborhoods and beaches, with lovely scenery and the historic attractions of Cabrillo National Monument overlooking the area's spectacular coastline.
La Playa
Neighborhood
La Playa is a bayfront neighborhood in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California. It is bordered by San Diego Bay to the east, Naval Base Point Loma to the south, the Wooded Area neighborhood to the west, and Point Loma Village/Roseville-Fleetridge to the north.
Wooded Area
Neighborhood
The Wooded Area is a neighborhood in Point Loma, a community of San Diego, California. It encompasses the hilltop area south of Talbot Street on both sides of Catalina Boulevard; the area west of Catalina is also referred to as the College Area.
Shelter Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in San Diego County, California, United States
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: San Diego County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.71131° or 32° 42′ 41″ northLongitude
-117.23003° or 117° 13′ 48″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
8544PQ69+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 358792532OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
5395146Wikidata ID
Q125873106
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In Other Languages
“Shelter Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shelter Island”
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