Isla Vista is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California in the United States.

Isla Vista enjoys a Mediterranean climate and often has slightly less precipitation than either Santa Barbara or the adjacent community of Goleta.

Isla Vista is located on a south-facing portion of the Santa Barbara County coast, between two small peninsulas, Coal Oil Point and Campus Point, in view of the Channel Islands.

During El Niño years, precipitation in Isla Vista can be excessive and potentially dangerous.

As Isla Vista is on the south coast of Santa Barbara County, which has some of the highest housing prices in the United States, the student population shares densely packed housing with a working Hispanic population.

Since Isla Vista has not been annexed by either Goleta or Santa Barbara, remaining unincorporated, only county funds are available for civic projects.

Isla Vista is home to a student housing cooperative, the Santa Barbara Student Housing Coop, as well as a food cooperative, the Isla Vista Food Co-op.

Isla Vista beachfront at sunset

Traditionally, Isla Vista is the area ' in the box ' formed by El Colegio Road to the north, Ocean Road

Starting in 2010, much of the land in the old Isla Vista CDP will be removed and put in the city of Goleta.

Isla Vista is actually the name of the first subdivision made in the center of the area now called Isla Vista ; properly, the Isla Vista subdivision is between Camino Pescadero on the east and Camino Corto on the west.

" As of the census of 2010, the city had a population of 88, 410, a loss of 1, 190 from the previous census, making it the second largest city in the county after Santa Maria while the contiguous urban area, which includes the cities of Goleta and Carpinteria, along with the unincorporated regions of Isla Vista, Montecito, Mission Canyon, Hope Ranch, Summerland, and others, has an approximate population of 220, 000.

If someone gave me a ticket it would just be another excuse and it would be so easy to just go back there and go up to Isla Vista Beach and just sit there all summer long, see my old friends and all my old enemies.

In 2004 there was a limited-run revival at the Royal National Theatre starring Desmond Barrit as Pseudolus, Philip Quast as Miles Gloriosus, Hamish McColl as Hysterium and Isla Blair as Domina ( who had previously played Philia in the 1963 production ).

Although in 1510 Trinidad and Tobago was said to have the only " peaceful Indians " along the whole South American coast, demand for slaves to supply the pearl-fisheries in nearby Isla Margarita led to them being declared " Caribs

The name " San Juan " was given to the islands by the Spanish explorer Francisco de Eliza, who charted the islands in 1791, naming them Isla y Archiepelago de San Juan.

The name Lille comes from insula or l ' Isla, i. e., " the island ", since the area was at one time marshy.

Tuvalu was first sighted by Europeans in 1568 during the voyage of Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira from Spain who is understood to have encounted the island of Nui, which he named Isla de Jesus ( Island of Jesus ) but was unable to land.

The crisis over Isla Perejil was seen by the Spanish government as a way for Morocco to test the waters in regard to Spain's will to defend Ceuta and Melilla.

The first Spaniard to document the island was Juan Manuel de Ayala in 1775, who charted San Francisco Bay, and named one of the three islands he identified as the " La Isla de los Alcatraces ," which translates as " The Island of the Pelicans ," In 1993, the National Park Service published a plan entitled Alcatraz Development Concept and Environmental Assessment.

" The aircraft was actually three miles east of the Fajardo waypoint instead of the Isla Verde waypoint ( which is located about 10 miles west of the Fajardo waypoint ).

In 1980, a Caribbean hub was inaugurated at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport ( known at the time as " Isla Verde International Airport ") near San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Due to her win in the Miss Universe pageant, she was honored with what was considered until then one of the biggest welcomings ever at San Juan's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, then known as Isla Verde International Airport.

In 1573, Spanish Franciscans established the Santa Maria mission on the island, which was named Isla de Santa Maria.

" One story states that the island was called Isla del Corregidor ( literally, Island of Correction ) due to the Spanish customs system, wherein all ships entering Manila Bay were required to stop and have their documents checked and " corrected ".

The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though not without controversy.

As early as the last part of the 18th century, Isla de los Estados was used as a seal harvesting location.

It was fronted by Isla St Clair, folksinger and former co-host of The Generation Game on BBC TV and Tommy Boyd, former co-presenter of ITV's Magpie.

As a result, he was transferred to another part of Cuba known as Isla de Pinos instead of further imprisonment.

In the spring 1970 multiple occasions of arson occurred, including a burning of the Bank of America branch building in the student community of Isla Vista, during which time one male student, Kevin Moran, was shot and killed by police.

A pilot for " Big Daddy's Saturday Show " was shot and a series announced but Crabtree pulled out at the last moment, leaving the hastily-renamed " The Saturday Show " presented by Isla St Clair and Tommy Boyd.

Originally constructed by the U. S. Navy as Naval Air Station Isla Grande just prior to World War II, the facility also served as Puerto Rico's main international airport until 1954, when Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport was built.

However, since Isla Grande airport was not built to accept jets, all international airlines then moved their operations in Puerto Rico to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, then named Isla Verde International Airport.

Isla Grande was renamed in honor of United States Air Force Major Fernando Luis Ribas-Dominicci, an F-111 pilot who was killed in action during Operation El Dorado Canyon ; the 1986 airstrike of Libya.

Principal trunk system is coaxial cable ; fiber-optic distribution in Havana and on Isla de la Juventud ; two microwave radio relay installations ( one is old, US-built ; the other newer, Soviet-built ); both analog and digital mobile cellular service established ; one international satellite earth station, Intersputnik ( Atlantic Ocean region ).

Commodore Aury established the first independent republic in Old Providence Island ( Isla de Providencia ) in 1818, off the coast of Nicaragua.

It established that Cuba's boundaries would not include the Isle of Pines ( Isla de la Juventud ) until its title could be established in a future treaty.

The Spanish name, " Isla Bougainville " ( like Port Louis ) is named after the French navigator Louis de Bougainville who established the first settlement in the archipelago in the 1760s.

In 1630 he established, in conjunction with Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, John Pym, and others from the group of Puritan entrepreneurs, a company for the settlement of the Providence Island colony on what is now Isla de Providencia in the Caribbean Sea, part of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, a department of Colombia.

It was established by Louis de Bougainville in 1764 as the first French settlement on the islands, but was then transferred to Spain in 1767 and renamed Puerto Soledad ( In Spanish, East Falkland is known as Isla Soledad ).

The Chilean Navy established a meteorological station above Caleta Condell, a small cove on the northeast side of Isla Gonzalo ( Gonzalo Island ), in 1957, and resupply it several times each year.

Spanish Franciscans established the Santa Maria mission on the island in 1573, naming it Isla de Santa Maria.

When in 1530 the Knights of St John came over to Malta and established their headquarters at nearby Birgu, they initiated a process of development and fortification of the area which culminated with the construction of the Cottonera Lines ; a massive line of fortifications which enclosed the cities of Birgu, Bormla and Isla into the area known as Cottonera, and the construction of Fort Ricasoli at the mouth of the Grand Harbour.

More barrios were established and were named after their peoples ’ ideals and aspirations, landmarks, and personalities such as Rang-ayan ( prosperity ), Linglingay ( recreation ), Mangandingay ( company ), Magtanggol ( defense ), and Villa Isla ( in a leader ’ s honor ).