Ghalas-at

This is a village on the island where Karana lives with her family until the Aleut hunters kill half of the villagers.

The Island of the Blue Dolphins

This is one of the Channel Islands West of Los Angeles and the primary setting for the novel.

Russia

This is the homeland of the hunters who come to the island to get otter pelts.

California

This is where Karana is taken after she is rescued from the island.

Black Cave

This is an opening in the rocks, at waterline, inside of which are the mummified remains of the narrator’s progenitors.