South Point, Santa Rosa Island

South Point, Santa Rosa Island
Photo by Robert Schwemmer, NOAA

South Point, Santa Rosa Island
Photo by Robert Schwemmer, NOAA

South Point Light, Santa Rosa Island

South Point, Santa Rosa Island is a survey station established in 1860 by William E. Greenwell. “The station is located on the highest part of south point at an elevation of 517 feet about 300 meters in from the shore.” In 1933, the station was recovered and marked by the Pioneer. “South Point was the name inadvertently given to this station in the triangulation records submitted and should be changed. The best way to reach this station is to make a boat landing on the lee side of the point and make up the trail blazed by the lighthouse service to the station.” The station was marked by a standard disk set in concrete. This place name and triangulation station appear on the June 1882 U.S. Coast Survey map Pacific Coast from Santa Monica to Point Conception, including the Santa Barbara Channel, California, J.E. Hilgard, Superintendent.

[UTM 10: North 3,754,632 East 766,347].

In the News~

July 1, 1909 [SBWP]: “That the Navy Department is at last evincing an interest in our channel and shortly will install a series of safeguards for shipping is evidenced in a communication received by a prominent Santa Barbaran. Listed in the proposed safety installations are a light and fog signal station and siren costing $100,000 for Anacapa; a light and fog signal station and siren costing $20,000 for Santa Rosa Island, and a fog signal station (siren) costing $24,000 for Santa Barbara Island.”