Channel Islands
The Channel Islands, also known as the Santa Barbara Islands, lie off the coast of California in the United States, between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles and lie in Santa Barbara County, Ventura County and Los Angeles County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island chain in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California along the Santa Barbara Channel
- Also known as: “California Channel Islands” and “Channel Islands of California”
Channel Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Santa Barbara County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Channel Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaliforniese Kanaaleilande”
- Afrikaans: “Santa Barbara-eilande”
- Arabic: “جزر القناة في كاليفورنيا”
- Armenian: “Չանել”
- Azerbaijani: “Çannel adaları”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaliforniya Çannel adaları”
- Basque: “Kanaleko Uharteak (Kalifornia)”
- Basque: “Kanaleko Uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Архіпелаг Чанел”
- Belarusian: “Чанел”
- Breton: “Channel Islands of California”
- Breton: “Channel Islands”
- Bulgarian: “Ченъл”
- Catalan: “Arxipèlag del Nord”
- Catalan: “Channel Islands de Califòrnia”
- Catalan: “Illes de Santa Bàrbara”
- Catalan: “Illes Santa Bárbara”
- Catalan: “illes Santa Bàrbara”
- Catalan: “Illes Santa Bàrbara”
- Chinese: “海峡群岛”
- Chinese: “海峽群島(加利福尼亞州)”
- Czech: “Channel Islands”
- Danish: “Kanaløerne (Californien)”
- Danish: “Kanaløerne”
- Dutch: “Channel Islands”
- Dutch: “Kanaaleilanden van Californie”
- Dutch: “Kanaaleilanden van Californië”
- Esperanto: “Kaliforniaj Kanalinsuloj”
- Esperanto: “Kanalinsuloj de Kalifornio”
- Estonian: “Channel Islands”
- Finnish: “Kanaalisaaret (Kalifornia)”
- Finnish: “Kanaalisaaret”
- French: “Channel Island”
- French: “Channel Islands de Californie”
- French: “Channel Islands de Californied”
- French: “Channel Islands”
- French: “Iles de Californie”
- French: “Îles de Californie”
- Galician: “Arquipélago das illas do Canal”
- German: “Channel Islands of California”
- German: “Channel Islands”
- German: “Kanalinseln von Kalifornien”
- German: “Kanalinseln”
- Hebrew: “איי התעלה של קליפורניה”
- Hebrew: “איי סנטה ברברה”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Channel di California”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Channel”
- Italian: “Channel Islands”
- Italian: “Isole Channel”
- Japanese: “サンタバーバラ諸島”
- Japanese: “チャンネル諸島”
- Korean: “채널 제도”
- Macedonian: “Каналски Острови”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Channel Islands”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanaløyene i California”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanaløyene”
- Norwegian: “Kanaløyene”
- Persian: “جزایر چنل (کالیفرنیا)”
- Persian: “جزایر چنل”
- Polish: “Channel Islands”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas do Canal da Califórnia”
- Romanian: “Insulele Channel din California”
- Russian: “Канальные острова”
- Russian: “о-ва Чаннел”
- Russian: “острова Чаннел”
- Russian: “Чаннел”
- Spanish: “Archipielago del Norte”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago del Norte”
- Spanish: “California Channel Islands”
- Spanish: “Isla de San Miguel”
- Spanish: “Islas Santa Barbara”
- Spanish: “Islas Santa Bárbara”
- Swedish: “Channel Islands of California”
- Swedish: “Channel Islands, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Channel Islands”
- Turkish: “Kaliforniya Channel Adaları”
- Turkish: “Kanal Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Канальні острови”
- Wu Chinese: “海峡群岛 (加利福尼亚州)”
- Wu Chinese: “海峡群岛（加利福尼亚州）”
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