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Peaks Island is the most populous island in Casco Bay, Maine. It is part of the city of Portland and about 3 miles (4.8 km) from downtown. The island is served by Casco Bay Lines and has its own elementary school, library, and police station.
The Witless Bay Ecological Reserve consists of four islands: Gull Island, Green Island, Great Island, and Pee Pee Island. Immense numbers of birds nest on these islands during the seabird breeding season, roughly from 1 April through 1 September. Two of the reserve's islands: Pee Pee Island in foreground with Great Island in background, 2020
Gull Island (Prudhoe Bay), Alaska; Gull Island (Massachusetts), one of the Elizabeth Islands Gull Island Bomb Area; Gull Island (Michigan), the name of a number of islands; Gull Island (Wisconsin), one of the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior; Gull Island Shoal (Lake Erie), Ohio; Little Gull Island and Great Gull Island, New York
Sep. 27—Four open seats on the Peaks Island Council have drawn no official candidates and just one write-in for the November election in which Portland voters also will consider a proposal to ...
Gull Island, located in St. James Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan, is the largest of approximately one dozen islands bearing this name in Michigan. 230 acres (0.9 km 2 ) in size, it is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge .
Due to their habit of feeding near shore during both summer and winter months, the species has been an important source of food for Inuit of Greenland, Baffin Island, and Labrador, as well as at parts of its southern range in eastern Canada. Kiviaq is an Inuit food from Greenland. It is made by stuffing a seal skin with 300 to 500 little auks.
[1] [2] [3] The island is a conservation reserve [3] and with the Passage and Forsyth islands, the Gull Island forms part of the Forsyth, Passage and Gull Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports over 1% of the world populations of little penguins and black-faced cormorants. [4]
Many of the following islands are selected for inclusion as the main island or having the highest peak in their island nation. The list includes some dependent or semi-dependent island overseas territories with their own ISO 3166-1 country code. The dependencies of Guernsey (Alderney, Sark, Herm) and St. Helena (Tristan da Cunha, Ascension ...