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Treasure Island

island, California, United States

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geography of San Francisco

  • San Francisco: Golden Gate Bridge
    In San Francisco: City site

    … and Yerba Buena and man-made Treasure Island, created for a world’s fair in 1939 and later turned into a naval base (1941–93). Alcatraz (Spanish: “Pelican”) was from 1934 to 1963 the most notorious maximum-security, “escape-proof” prison in the United States. In 1969, after the decaying cell blocks had been given…

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