Guadalupe

Guadalupe is a volcanic island in the Pacific, far west of the Baja California peninsula. Its steep slopes rise from the ocean, and its isolated shores provide breeding places for seals and seabirds. The island’s plants developed in isolation from the mainland, while cool ocean waters surround its rocky coast. From the late eighteenth century fur hunters visited islands off California and Mexico in search of seals; surviving marks at sealing stations record visits to Guadalupe by the 1830s.