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The Channel Islands of California are named, as you said, because most are across the Santa Barbara or San Pedro Channels from Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara Counties. San Nicolas Island isn’t across from a channel from the mainland, it is across a channel between it and the other islands. I can see the Channel Islands from my house, so I know.
Man, I should have gotten the Mojave desert. Unfortunately my brain saw "driest desert" and only supplied me with Atacama desert, which is very obviously wrong
San Diego actually shares a border with Tijuana, since San Ysidro (which is the site of the border crossing) is part of the city of San Diego. It's true that downtown San Diego is farther north.