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The map is just ... took over the island in 1919 he did his best to lure mainland folk across the 22 miles of ocean to beautiful Avalon and the rugged climes of Santa Catalina, where visitors ...

and named the island Santa Catalina. After the Spanish colonization of California, European diseases, for which the Pimungans had little immunization, nearly wiped out the island's population.