S Base, San Nicolas Island
From Islapedia
S Base, San Nicolas Island is a triangulation station established by William E. Greenwell of the U.S. Coast Survey in 1858. It is located at the airfield on the central mesa. As Greenwell described it:
- “It [the base line] is on a level piece of ground covered with low sage bushes and a species of cabbage plant, known here as ‘siempre vive.’”
