FUN FACTS
Facts of Alcatraz:
Each year many athletes go to Alcatraz to prove that with training is possible to swim to the shore and survive. On the first event of those in 1980, they needed to swim 1.5-miles to San Francisco, then 18-miles riding a bike, and at last 8-mile running.
The Alcatraz Prison is not the only famous building at the island, the other famous building is the lighthouse, the lighthouse was the first lighthouse of the Pacific coast. It was built to keep out ships from crashing on the island or on the rocks that where all around the island.
Alcatraz island has 22 acres and 121 feet above the sea level. The island has a few rainwater collection cisterns, and the island does not has any source of fresh water. Some of the animals at Alcatraz that don’t have feathers are deer mice, banana slugs, and slender salamanders that are believed that they got to Alcatraz by swimming to the shore.
Like Alcatraz is very famous they film a movie the name of the movie is ¨Alcatraz¨, the movie was about how some men that escape from Alcatraz and if it was a successful escape or if the sharks ate them, but they never found their bodies. That movie was based on one escape on 1979.
Each year many athletes go to Alcatraz to prove that with training is possible to swim to the shore and survive. On the first event of those in 1980, they needed to swim 1.5-miles to San Francisco, then 18-miles riding a bike, and at last 8-mile running.
The Alcatraz Prison is not the only famous building at the island, the other famous building is the lighthouse, the lighthouse was the first lighthouse of the Pacific coast. It was built to keep out ships from crashing on the island or on the rocks that where all around the island.
Alcatraz island has 22 acres and 121 feet above the sea level. The island has a few rainwater collection cisterns, and the island does not has any source of fresh water. Some of the animals at Alcatraz that don’t have feathers are deer mice, banana slugs, and slender salamanders that are believed that they got to Alcatraz by swimming to the shore.
Like Alcatraz is very famous they film a movie the name of the movie is ¨Alcatraz¨, the movie was about how some men that escape from Alcatraz and if it was a successful escape or if the sharks ate them, but they never found their bodies. That movie was based on one escape on 1979.