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There are two connected islands in San Francisco Bay. One, Treasure Island, is man-made. The other, Yerba Buena Island, connects the two sections of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.		click images to enlarge	iNeTours.com London UK Tour Tour New York City Las Vegas Tour Wine Tours Tour Los Angeles CA Central Coast Tour San Diego Tour New Orleans Tour Yosemite Park Tour San Francisco SF Sightseeing Tours San Francisco Hotels San Francisco Map 1906 Quake & Fire 48 hours in SF Neighborhoods Alcatraz \| Tickets The Castro Aquatic Park Chinatown Civic Center Coit Tower Embarcadero Financial District Fisherman's Wharf Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Park Conservatory Japanese Tea Garden Strybing Arboretum Haight-Ashbury JapanTown Marina & Union Street Nob Hill/Cable Cars North Beach Pacific Heights Pier 39 The Presidio Scenic San Francisco SOMA South Beach Treasure Island Dragon Boat Race Union Square Victorian Houses San Francisco Bay Area Marin Headlands Pt Bonita Lighthouse Muir Woods NM
Pictures & Click images to enlarge San Francisco Sunse t from TI Bay Bridge - San Francisco SF Bay Bridge Sunset Bay Bridge to Coit Tower San Francisco skyline Yerba Buena Island 180° Treasure Island a.m. 360° East Bay view 360° San Francisco Sunset 360° San francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Replacement Construction	Yerba Buena Island has been known by many names including Seabird Island, Wood Island and Goat Island. Yerba Buena Island history includes a considerable amout of controversity over its use and ownership. Washington ordered its occupation in 1868 to keep Yerba Buena Island out of the hands of the Central Pacific Railroad. Treasure Island, a man made island, has been used as an international airport, site of the 1939–40 World’s Fair: Golden Gate International Exposition and as a military base. The Museum of The City of San Francisco has an article and links to additional World’s Fair information. Clipper Cove—between Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island was named for the airplanes that took off from the cove before the island was taken over by the Navy at the begining of WWII. Clipper Cove and Treasure Island were recently host to the SF International Dragon Boat Festival. In this 1935 historical aerial photo of the San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge construction you can see that Treasure Island does not yet exist! The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, an 8.5 mile long combination suspension / cantilever structure, passes through Yerba Buena Island and connects San Francisco with Contra Costa and Alameda Counties. When it was first constructed the Bay Bridge was the most expensive man-made structure ever built, the longest steel high-level bridge in the world and the 58 foot Yerba Buena Tunnel was the tallest bore in the world. The part of the Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco and Yearba Buena Island is really two suspension bridges. A monolithic concrete pier in the middle supports one end of each to the two bridges. The Bay Bridge foundations extend to 200 and 242 feet below water — 100 feet into the mud. The deeper pier required more concrete than the Empire State Building and is bigger than the largest of the Pyramids in Egypt. Statistics and history of the Bay Bridge are on this Caltrans™ site. The Treasure Island Museum has information about Bay Area "treasures" from its rich history of military, world's fair and Panam Clipper flights.	Aerial view of Yerba Buena and Treasure Island Dragon Boat Festival & Treasure Island - picture from Yerba Buena Island Yerba Buena & Treasure Island from above San Francisco Tours Alcatraz Tours Double Decker Bus San Francisco City Tours Culinary Tours Wine Country Tours SF Bay Cruises Muir Woods Tours

	A controversial design for replacing the east span of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge was accepted and construction begun, halted then started again. Part of the two tier span was damaged in the October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Construction of the new East span is expected to be completed by the fall of 2013. State-owned bridges will have a toll increase to $4 to pay for cost overruns associated with delays as the govenor and legislature debated design details. View post card picture sets of Treasure Island and construction of the Bay Bridge from Bill Roddy’s collection. San Francisco landmarks visible from Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island include The Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid in the Financial District. After you've taken a virtual tour of San Francisco on iNeTours.com you might want to take a real San Francisco Tour.		Yosemite NP Day Trips Attraction Passes Airport Shuttles

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