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Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. It's infamous for an old penitentiary which is no longer in use.

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  • Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. It's infamous for an old penitentiary which is no longer in use.
  • <default>Alcatraz Island</default> Location Position Ruler Appearance Alcatraz Island is a famous former prison island located in the San Francisco Bay. It is currently a museum. KampĂȘ's prison is directly underneath the known Alcatraz prison. Briares, a hundred-handed elder brother of the Cyclopes, was held there by her. Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Tyson and Grover Underwood helped him escape into the Labyrinth.
  • Alcatraz is an island in San Francisco, California. It's best known for hosting a prison, closed in 1963.
  • Alcatraz Island is located in the middle of the bay. It can only be reached by boat or by fast traveling there via a kiosk.
  • Alcatraz Island was home to a large fort that protected San Francisco from naval attack. Their guns were considered formidable. After the Royal Navy started shelling cities on the Great Lakes, Clay Herndon of The San Francisco Morning Call managed to get an interview with the commander of the garrison, and was unimpressed by the defensive works, as all the guns they contained were all out-dated muzzle-loading rifled cannon. However, when the Royal Navy did attack, they sat off the coast out of gun range, never once entering San Francisco Bay.
  • Currently it one of many Tomas' strongholds. The Tomas' technique using Alcatraz island was to capture Cahill clue hunters and keep them in the ultra-sound prison. It was mortifying to know how close you were to a clue, and yet be trapped behind steel bars.
  • A ghost named Jackson Ward, a former inmate, inhabited the deserted prison and escaped with the help from the Soul Collector Charon by possessing the body of a tour guide she killed.
  • Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. Often referred to as "The Rock", the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1933 until 1963. Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied for more than 19 months by a group of Aboriginal peoples from San Francisco who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation with public protests through the 1970s. In 1972, Alcatraz became a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
  • Alcatraz Island is a small island in the bay near San Francisco that was made famous for its use as prison. Today it is a popular historical museum / tourism attraction. The small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1933 until 1963.[5] Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied for more than 19 months by a group of aboriginal people from San Francisco who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation with public protests through the 1970s. In 1972, Alcatraz became a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
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