The Farallon Islands /færəlɔːn/ FA-ra-lon, or Farallones (from Spanish farallón 'pillar, sea cliff'), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf...

named for the Farallon Islands, which are located just west of San Francisco, California. Over time, the central part of the Farallon plate was subducted...

uninhabited volcanic island, the northernmost island and also farthest west in the Northern Mariana Islands chain. Presumably Farallon de Pajaros was never...

Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. is an American multi-strategy hedge fund headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Tom Steyer in 1986...

name given to an 1863 conflict between rival egging companies on the Farallon Islands, 25 miles off San Francisco. It was the culmination of several years...

island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain Farallon de Pajaros (Birds Rock), the northernmost island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain Farallon...

inset frame shows an inferior mirage of the Farallon Islands. The second inset frame is the Farallon Islands with a green flash on the left-hand side. The...

and islands are in two countries, many of the ecoregion, habitat, conservation, and ecological issues are shared. Farallon Islands Año Nuevo Island The...

Pearl Harbor and San Francisco for study, she was later sunk near the Farallon Islands. Begun as light cruiser Amsterdam, CL-59, she was launched as CV-22...

Farallon de Medinilla , also known as No'os, is a small uninhabited island in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is located 45 nautical...

mass due to tectonic displacement. The Farallon Islands off the coast of California are an example. Sets of islands formed close to the coast of a continent...

within Humboldt County. Other islands of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Farallon Islands are a group of rugged small islands over 20 miles (32 km) offshore...

return from a short solo trip to scatter his mother's ashes at the Farallon Islands near San Francisco. The weather was clear, and no distress call was...

swimming challenge. In 2015, she became the first woman to swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge – a distance of about 30 miles. Chambers...

define the Santa Barbara Channel between the islands and the California mainland. The four Northern Channel Islands are part of the Transverse Ranges geologic...

westward from the opening of the San Francisco Bay and Drakes Bay to the Farallon Islands. Most of the gulf lies in Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary...

sequential image here shows sixteen photographic frames of a mirage of the Farallon Islands as seen from San Francisco; the images were all taken on the same day...

extending from Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, out slightly beyond the Farallon Islands, and down to the Big Sur region, south of Monterey. The area has a...

Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries, the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, and the California Coastal National Monument...

relay team of six people in a swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands, and then back to the Golden Gate Bridge. The route was 59.4-mile-long...

Treasure Island, San Francisco, on a coastal antisubmarine patrol. Its scheduled route would have taken the airship over the Farallon Islands, Point Reyes...

rocky islands. In later years it was shorn of its lantern, but it remains in use. Farallon Island Light was constructed on Southeast Farallon Island. After...

Francisco's islands are protected as parkland or nature reserves. Alcatraz Island, operated by the National Park Service, is open to the public. The Farallon Islands...

Bay called Port Rumyantsev (порт Румянцев), a sealing station on the Farallon Islands 18 miles (29 km) out to sea from San Francisco, and by 1830 three small...

string of the northernmost islands of the Northern Marianas, including (from north to south) Farallon de Pajaros, the Maug Islands, Asuncion, Agrihan, Pagan...

almost half a million eggs a year from the Farallon Islands in the mid-19th century, a period in the islands' history from which the seabird species are...

from the Pleistocene. In 2013, an American lobster was caught at the Farallon Islands off the coast of California. It has been introduced to Norway and potentially...

description of Manila Galleon pilot Cabrera Bueno) Point Reyes and the Farallon Islands. The expedition was blocked from going farther north toward Point Reyes...

and paused the journey the next day when anchoring the ship at the Farallon Islands where they hunted sea lions or seals. Drake left the Pacific coast...

Sugar Loaf Island (California), the westernmost island in California in Humboldt County Sugarloaf Island, California, one of the Farallon Islands offshore...