Barbara Meislin (known as the Purple Lady of Tiburon) is an American author, singer, philanthropist, and healer, known locally in the town of Tiburon, California for a devotion to things colored purple.
The Spanish, the first European power to control the area, established the village of Tiburon on the north side of the body of water and showed the straits on their charts as the Straits of Tiburon.
Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet was refueled there on its famous round-the-world cruise.
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The synagogue retained The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty which threatened litigation depending on the outcome.
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Tiburon is designated as a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary by Audubon International.
In 2012 a television episode of Survivorman Ten Days (Les Stroud) was filmed on Tiburón Island.
The Tiburón Island Tragedy occurred in 1905 when three members of a small American gold prospecting expedition went missing in the Sonoran Desert near Tiburón Island.