Alcatraz is a small, rocky ____ in San Francisco Bay in the USA. It is 2.4 km from the ____ and the sea around the island is very dangerous. The water is very cold and there are fast, ____ currents. In the 19th century, the American government realised it was the ideal place to put dangerous ____, because it is very difficult to ____ and even more difficult to ____ from. So they built a prison on the island and from the 1930s to the 1960s it was the ____ prison in the USA. Over 1,500 prisoners stayed on the island, including America's most ____ bank robbers and ____. The most famous prisoner was the ____ Al Capone. But the prison was never full and it was very expensive to ____, so the government finally decided to close it. Alcatraz became a museum and is now one of San Francisco's most popular tourist ____, with more than one and a half million visitors a year.

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