Channel Islands National Park protects five of the eight Channel Islands off the coast of southern California, as well as the ocean around them: Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, San Miguel and Santa Barbara. The islands were isolated from the mainland for a long time, and they have many species that live nowhere else, such as the island fox. They were home to the Chumash and their ancestors for thousands of years, and later to ranches. Congress made the islands a national park in 1980, after they were first a national monument. The surrounding waters shelter kelp forests, seals and sea lions and nesting seabirds, and are a national marine sanctuary.
Before and after
- 1980Creation of Ada
- 1980Publication of The Name of the Rose
- 1980Rise of transhumanism
- 1980Founding of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1980Establishment of Channel Islands National Park
- from January 1980 to April 1991Siege of Khost
- 1980Establishment of Jaú National Park
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 1980Establishment of Komodo National Park
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