Mare Island
Mare Island is in Vallejo, Solano County. It is a former U.S. Navy shipyard. The architecture is a mix of historic military housing and industrial buildings which have been converted to commercial use. There are park areas and places to eat and drink.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: peninsula in Solano County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Isla De La Yegua”, “Isla Plana”, “La Isla De La Yegua”, “Napa Island”, and “Yegua Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include California Maritime Academy.
California Maritime Academy
University
Photo: Frijole, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The California Polytechnic State University Maritime Academy is a satellite campus of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo located in Vallejo, California that operates as a maritime academy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vallejo and Crockett.
Vallejo
Vallejo is a city in Solano County, California, United States, and the second largest city in the North Bay region of the Bay Area. Located on the shores of San Pablo Bay, the city had a population of 126,090 at the 2020 United States census.
Crockett
Village
Photo: Federico Pizano, CC BY 3.0.
Crockett is a census-designated place in Contra Costa County, in the East Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The population was 3,242 at the 2020 census.
Rodeo
Village
Rodeo is a census-designated place located in Contra Costa County, California, in the East Bay sub-region of the San Francisco Bay Area, on the eastern shore of San Pablo Bay, 25 miles northeast of San Francisco.
Mare Island
- Categories: peninsula, locality, and landform
- Location: Solano County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.0922° or 38° 5′ 32″ northLongitude
-122.2705° or 122° 16′ 14″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MI8Open location code
84CV3PRH+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 358770149OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
5370380Wikidata ID
Q1631406
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Slovenian—“Mare Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mare Island”
- Chinese: “馬雷島”
- Chinese: “马雷岛”
- Dutch: “Mare Island”
- French: “Mare Island”
- Italian: “Mare Island”
- Japanese: “マレ”
- Japanese: “メア・アイランド”
- Japanese: “メア島”
- Russian: “Мэйр-Айленд”
- Slovenian: “Mare Island”
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