tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post4020012831161688855..comments2024-03-27T21:49:03.499-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Wednesday Search Challenge (Mar 2, 2011): What islands are these? How big are they?Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-10584442368031720042011-03-05T17:51:39.213-08:002011-03-05T17:51:39.213-08:00If you do an exact search (using quotes) on Google...If you do an exact search (using quotes) on Google Books for part of the passage, like ["The memory rekindles that excitement and my unanswerable doubts"] you get "The last of the blue water hunters" as the only result. Google Books isn't able to show more than a snippet of text from this book, so I looked it up on Amazon, which has the "Look inside" feature. I searched for the same passage, and then went to the beginning of the chapter which explains that they are headed to Santa Catalina. I checked my work by reading on to see that they anchor at a cove called "Doctor's Cove," searching for ["doctor's cove" catalina island], and reading this article: http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-os-swim18oct18Michael Wyszomierskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03640532493501594542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-36267152007146557302011-03-05T15:51:16.427-08:002011-03-05T15:51:16.427-08:00I knew that one of them was Santa Cruz Island, so ...I knew that one of them was Santa Cruz Island, so quickly got the Channel Islands info as Hans did.<br /><br />The quote is found on page 5 of <i>The last of the blue water hunters</i> by Carlos Eyles, found using Google book search on a randomly selected part of the quote "island grow and acquire dimension as the sun rises"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-79091454738641308632011-03-03T10:12:41.452-08:002011-03-03T10:12:41.452-08:00No problems with the first two questions. Google m...No problems with the first two questions. Google maps gave me very fast a couple of names: Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara. A search in Google with these names brought me to a Wikipedia page on the Channel Islands of California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California<br /><br />The names of the islands are: Anacapa, San Miguel, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa (the northern islands) and San Clemente, San Nicolas, Santa Barbara, Santa Catalina (the southern islands).<br /><br />The largest island is Santa Cruz: 249.95 km2<br /><br />No answer on the book passage.Hanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362447090339269962noreply@blogger.com