"Guadalupe Island or Isla Guadalupe is a volcanic island located 241 kilometres (150 mi) off the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and some 400 kilometres (250 mi) southwest of the city of Ensenada in Baja California state, in the Pacific Ocean. The two other Mexican island groups in the Pacific Ocean that are not on the continental shelf are Revillagigedo Islands and Rocas Alijos. The island measures 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-south and up to 9.5 kilometres (5.9 mi) east-west, with a total area of 243.988 km2 (94.204 sq mi). The southern part of the island is barren, but there are fertile valleys and trees in the northern part. The coast generally consists of rocky bluffs with detached rocks fronting some of them. Guadalupe Island is composed of oceanic shield volcanoes which formed on a now extinct mid-oceanic ridge. The volcanic rocks of the island consist of olivine basalt and trachyte. The 2008 census recorded a population of 150 people on the island. An abandoned fishing community, Campo Este ("East Camp"), is located near a cove on the eastern shore."
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