Mescalitan Island

[1] The first European explorer in the Goleta area, Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, arrived on October 15, 1542.

[2] During a sailing trip to Northern California, Cabrillo was injured, later dying of his injuries; according to some accounts he was buried on San Miguel Island.

[4] In 1941 the Army Corps of Engineers leveled most of Mescalitan Island to provide fill for a Navy airport.

There is a mural depicting Mescalitan Island on the side of the Santa Cruz Market on Hollister Avenue in old town Goleta.

[6] The site of Mescalitan Island is in southern Santa Barbara County, California at 34° 25' 16" N. latitude and 119° 50' W. longitude.

Aerial view of the remaining part of Mescalitan Island (left) and the Goleta Sanitary Sewage Treatment Plant, with UCSB in the distance.
Topographic Image of the Island