The island is accessible by boat or small aircraft; it is not accessible on foot.

In the terminal Pleistocene, the geography was different.

Sea level during the peak of the last glacial maximum — roughly 20,000 years ago — was approximately 350 feet lower than today.

With sea level that far below its present position, vast areas of the continental shelf that are now submerged were dry land.

The geography of coastal California looked fundamentally different from how it looks today.

The four northern Channel Islands — San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Anacapa — were connected.