Talk:Farallon Islands

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What is the population of the islands, and who lives there? -- Beland 04:07, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Usually, there are around less than 10 people living there. They are marine biologists, for the most part. Gentgeen 16:09, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Aren't all of the people there temporary researchers? There are no year'round rangers like Santa Barbara Island, for example, are there? BlankVerse ∅ 18:06, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

They are researchers (which range from 4 in the winter to 8 in the summer/spring) with an NGO (PRBO) that has a contract with Fish and Wildlife. The F&W refuge manager and refuge specialist are based out of Don Edwards San Francisco Bay NWR and visit the islands from time to time. Sabine's Sunbird 5 July 2005 16:47 (UTC)

I just reverted an edit with regard to inhabitation on the island. SEFI is inhabited all year by scientists. Sabine's Sunbird 15:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

I had a math teacher back in the late 1970s-early 1980s who was a member of the California Air National Guard, who described doing practice bombing runs off the Farallons & how sometimes a (dummy) bomb would "skip" across the water and hit land. This is all from memory, though. --Davecampbell 02:29, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm disappointed I can't see the islands on google earth :^( Funkyj 20:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

You can see the islands, especially the Southeastern F.I. (SEFI), clearly on NASA World Wind. I added the coordinates of SEFI to the article to facilitate quick lookup (of course, NASA World Wind must be installed).--Ratzer 21:34, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I have added a section about nuclear waste at the Farallons. SugakuKarasu 12:36, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Nuclear waste misinformation 2 Why is there netting in the sea if it's a marine sanctuary? 3 Spanish Names 3.1 nearly certain matches 3.2 possible matches 3.3 no matches (no English equivalents found or known)

[edit] Nuclear waste misinformation

• "From 1945 to 1970, the sea around the Farallones was used as a nuclear dumping site for radioactive waste, despite nuclear dumping at sea being prohibited."

Dumping of nuclear waste at sea was not prohibited at all until the 1970s, and even today can technically be done in many situations with the right license from the EPA.

• "An estimated count of 80,000 - 55 gallon barrels full of radioactive debris that carry a shelf life of 3 billion years,"

I don't know what "shelf life" is supposed to mean here. Is it some sort of reference to the half lives? This needs to be clarified or removed. "Shelf life" has no meaning in this context. --24.147.86.187 22:00, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, I basically re-wrote it. It seems like it was basically copied-and-pasted from another site anyway, and that site had really bad information on it (it was a sloppy compilation of information with a lot of innuendo thrown in). I think the truth of things is shocking enough as it is, written up clinically and without innuendo, so I have done so! --24.147.86.187 22:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't this information really belong in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary article? Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:54, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Does it need a separate article for that? --24.147.86.187 (talk) 03:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why is there netting in the sea if it's a marine sanctuary?

Sorry if it's a stupid question! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.104.126.200 (talk) 06:02, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

The net either drifted there from outside the sanctuary, or, more likely, the whale was entangled outside the sanctuary and carried the net there itself. 76.200.157.121 (talk) 03:05, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spanish Names

The Spanish Wikipedia article [1] provides Spanish (and in a few cases Russian) names for the islands, perhaps even for some rocks that have no English equivalents. Please help matching the names, so we can provide the Spanish names in this article also.

[edit] nearly certain matches

• Southeast Farallon Island = Farallón Sureste
• Sea Lion Rock = Piedra del León Marino
• Great Arch Rock = Farallón El Gran Arco
• Middle Farallon Island = Farallón de Enmedio
• North Farallon Island = Farallón del Norte
• Island of St. James = Isla St. James

[edit] possible matches

• Seal Rock = Piedra Bola
• Maintop Island = Farallón Santiago
• The Drunk Uncle Islets = Rocas de la Bahía
• Aulone Island = Isla Rezanov
• Sugarloaf Island = Piedra de Amolar

[edit] no matches (no English equivalents found or known)

•  ? = Roca Kuskov
•  ? = Roca Kostromitinov
•  ? = Piedra Guadalupe
•  ? = Peñasco Quebrado
•  ? = Farallón Vizcaíno

Ratzer (talk) 09:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)