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Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay, 1.25 miles (2.01 km)
offshore from San Francisco, California, United States. The small
island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military for-
tification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1934
until 1963. Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied
for more than 19 months by a group of Native Americans from San
Francisco, who were part of a wave of Native activism across the
nation, with public protests through the 1970s. In 1972, Alcatraz be-
came part of a national recreation area and received designation as
a National Historic Landmark in 1986.