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The largest natural island in San Francisco Bay, Angel Island rises steeply from the water just north of San Francisco and across a narrow channel from Tiburon, its tree-covered slopes and 788-foot Mount Caroline Livermore offering some of the most expansive views anywhere in the region. Long inhabited by the Coast Miwok people, the island was named in 1775 by the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala, and over the next two centuries became, in turn, a Civil War-era army post, a quarantine stati...