In this archipelago, an island that was closed from 2014 to 2016 due to unexploded ordnance houses roots calcified by wind-blown sand, forming a caliche forest. Boats owned by Island Packers stop at this chain’s Scorpion Cove. A huge breeding site for elephant seals is on a beach at this island chain’s Point Bennett. In 1972, George and Molly Hunt discovered chicks raised by pairs of “lesbian seagulls” in this archipelago, where a different island is the only home of an unusually bright-colored scrub jay. A cat-sized island fox is endemic to this chain, where pygmy mammoths once lived. These islands were once navigated in pitch-covered tomol canoes by the Tongva and Chumash peoples; ferries now sail southwest from Oxnard to reach them. Anacapa and Santa Catalina are among, for 10 points, what islands off the coast of Southern California? ■END■
ANSWER: Channel Islands of California [accept Channel Islands National Park; anti-prompt on San Miguel Island, San Clemente Island, Anacapa Island, Santa Cruz Island, or Santa Catalina Island by asking “what larger island group is that part of?”]
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