The Farallion Islands, or Devil's Teeth, as they are remed to by sailors are mad
a group of small islands with rocky, baren teman and tradens
underwater currents, 48 km (30 miles) off the cast of San Farch
California. Although the islands are small, with a combined al
of 0.41 km² (0.16 square miles), they are positioned in a mapr on
current, which enables them to house dense populations of birt
rodents, seals, and other water mammas
The abundance of wildlife first atracted Russian and Americants
traders in the early 1800s, who then nearly eliminated the sea
population in the area. The islands then became an agricultural resour
for San Francisco during the Gold Rush era when egg companies beg
harvesting bird eggs on the islands in 1863 violence been leg
companies erupted on the islands (known as the which
inadvertently attracted national atention and provoked lawmakers to
pass legislation to protect and rehabilitate the islands natural son

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