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Calf Island (42°06′11″N 83°10′45″W) is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) island off the southwest coast of Grosse Ile. The island sits at an elevation of 571 feet (174 m) above sea level. [4] The island, which is within Grosse Ile Township, is uninhabited and serves primarily as a nesting location for migrating birds.
0 (permanent) Zug Island, viewed from the Detroit River in May 2021. Zug Island is a heavily industrialized island within the city of River Rouge at the southern city limits of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located where the mouth of the River Rouge spills into the Detroit River.
The William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor (formerly named Tri-Centennial State Park and Harbor) is a public recreation area located on the Detroit River just east of downtown Detroit, Michigan, on a portion of the city's International Riverfront. The state park 's 31 acres (13 ha) include wetlands, paved trails, and a 52-slip harbor of ...
Sugar Island is a small island in the Detroit River [1] between Grosse Ile and Boblo Island. Sugar Island is part of Grosse Ile Township, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, and lies about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the border with Canada. Currently the island is uninhabited and was recently converted to a wildlife refuge by the US Fish and ...
Peche Island. / 42.34583°N 82.92528°W / 42.34583; -82.92528. Peche Island ( French pronunciation anglicized to / ˈpiːtʃ /, therefore occasionally misspelled "Peach"), is an uninhabited, currently 86- acre (35 ha) (reduced by erosion from a 1965 measurement of 109 acres / 43.7 ha) Canadian island in the Detroit River, at its opening ...
While the boundaries of the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge encompass only 7.88 square miles (20.42 km 2) of property scattered along the west coast of the Detroit River and Lake Erie, the Department of the Interior has approved of future land acquisitions by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service totaling 18.75 square miles (48.56 km 2 ...
Elba Island is an island in the Detroit River. [2] It is in Wayne County , in southeast Michigan . Its coordinates are 42°06′09″N 83°08′51″W / 42.10250°N 83.14750°W / 42.10250; -83.14750 ( Elba Island ) , [ 1 ] and the United States Geological Survey gave its elevation as 591 ft (180 m) in
The Detroit River is an international river in North America. The river, which forms part of the border between the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario, flows west and south for 24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi) from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system. The river divides the metropolitan ...