Borrego, Santa Rosa Island

Borrego, Santa Rosa Island [Sp. Sheep] is a survey station at 283 feet in elevation established by William E. Greenwell in 1860. : “The signal in on the south side of the island about 150 meters from the shore. It is a little west of the middle point on the south shore, under which is a safe anchorage in the summer. Immediately west of the anchorage is a large cañada [Wreck Canyon], a prominent feature of this point of the island, and in which is water.”

The site was revisited by Stehman Forney in 1872, O. W. Swainson in 1933, and G. K. G. in 1934 who redescribed its location:

“on the south side of the island on the top of the ridge forming the east bank of the Wreck Canyon, a water canyon and a prominent feature of this side of the island. About 400 meters from the sea. The best way to reach the station is to make a boat landing at Ford Point where there is a large whitewashed steam boiler, and make west along the bluffs to the east bank of the Wreck Canyon. Turn right up the hill to the station.”

The station was marked with a standard disk stamped BORREGO. This triangulation station appears on the Santa Rosa Island South topographic map. [UTM 10: North 3,756,786 East 771,891; UTM 11: North 3,757,106 East 217,166].