Sutil Island, formerly known as Gull Island, is a 13-acre rocky islet in the Channel Islands National Park. It is named after a ship of the Galiano expedition of 1792. It is located 0.4 miles southwest of

Santa Barbara Island Santa Barbara Island (Spanish: ''Isla de Santa Bárbara''; Tongva: ''Tchunashngna'') is a small island of the Channel Islands archipelago in Southern California. It is protected within Channel Islands National Park, and its marine ecosyste ...

. It is 300 feet high. The island is an important wildlife habitat, particularly for seabirds. It is an important nesting site for

Brandt's cormorant Brandt's cormorant (''Urile penicillatus'') is a strictly marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabits the Pacific coast of North America. It ranges, in the summer, from Alaska to the Gulf of California, but the population n ...

and the endangered Guadalupe murrelet, and is the only breeding site on the pacific coast of the US for the black storm petrel. It is also home to the island night lizard, which is only found on Sutil, Santa Barbara, San Nicolas and

San Clemente San Clemente (; Spanish for " St. Clement") is a city in Orange County, California. Located in the Orange Coast region of the South Coast of California, San Clemente's population was 64,293 in at the 2020 census. Situated roughly midway betwe ...

islands.

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Channel Islands National Park Islands of Southern California Islands of the Channel Islands of California Islands of Santa Barbara County, California Miocene volcanism Miocene geology Paleogene California Uninhabited islands of California Islands of California {{SantaBarbaraCountyCA-geo-stub