References in Popular Culture
San Nicolas appears as the titular isle in Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins, as well as that novel's sequel, Zia. It is also the setting for the computer video game Rise of the Triad. Used as a map reference in the movie Commando as Arius's island. On page 52 of the book How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff, it is used in a temperature comparison (both had annual means of 61 degrees) with the deserts of Southern California as an example of the importance of knowing the range of data used to calculate an average mean.
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