White Rock Island
USA /
California /
Avalon /
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/ USA
/ California
/ Avalon
World / United States / California
island, interesting place

Also known locally as Bird Rock, White Rock is currently owned by the Caffey family. It was purchased in the 1920s by three investors for $140. A number of movie scenes have been filmed here in the past and it was also featured on California's Gold with Huell Howser. The tiny island is also home to rare malva rosa, a plant which was decimated on Catalina Island due to being eaten by feral goats.
Michael Caffey - director of many TV shows for series such as Hawaii Five-O, The Wild Wild West, The Virginian, B.J. and the Bear, Barnaby Jones, CHiPs, the Dukes of Hazzard, MacGuyver, and Wonder Woman - inherited two-thirds of the island and bought the remaining parcel for $1,000. Caffey has tried to sell the island, as recently as 2010, although donating it to USC is also possible. Although it is unlikely to be developed due to zoning and environmental issues, the reefs surrounding the tiny 1.3-acre island remain a popular diving spot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko7FlHPFQrU
Michael Caffey - director of many TV shows for series such as Hawaii Five-O, The Wild Wild West, The Virginian, B.J. and the Bear, Barnaby Jones, CHiPs, the Dukes of Hazzard, MacGuyver, and Wonder Woman - inherited two-thirds of the island and bought the remaining parcel for $1,000. Caffey has tried to sell the island, as recently as 2010, although donating it to USC is also possible. Although it is unlikely to be developed due to zoning and environmental issues, the reefs surrounding the tiny 1.3-acre island remain a popular diving spot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko7FlHPFQrU
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 33°27'4"N 118°29'13"W
- Santa Catalina Island 11 km
- San Clemente Island 48 km
- Santa Cruz Island 151 km
- Santa Rosa Island 176 km
- Montague Island 389 km
- Isla Guadalupe 475 km
- Grand Island 611 km
- Isla Ángel de la Guarda 636 km
- Cedros Island 639 km
- Silver Island 937 km
- Two Harbors, at Santa Catalina Island Isthmus 2.1 km
- Catalina Harbor 3 km
- Palisades 18 km
- Connelly-Pacific Rock Quarry 23 km
- San Pedro 36 km
- Palos Verdes Peninsula 36 km
- Main Channel 37 km
- APM Terminals Pier 400 38 km
- Los Angeles-Long Beach Port Complex 40 km
- South Bay 46 km
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