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The San Juan Islands are a small archipelago in the Alaska Panhandle, located 53 miles east of Sitka, in Pybus Bay on the southeast flank of Admiralty Island. [ 1 ] References
San Juan Islands (in white) and surrounding region Location of the San Juan Islands. The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of Washington state, and form the core of San Juan County.
Noted for its $6.4 million purchase of Vendovi Island in 2010 and its $18.5 million acquisition of Turtleback Mountain on Orcas Island in 2006, the Preservation Trust has permanently protected 270 properties, 38 miles of shoreline and 16,000 acres on 20 islands, including land now managed as public parks, nature preserves, wildlife habitat, and ...
San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States. It has a land area of 142.59 km 2 (55.053 sq mi) and a population of 8,632 [ 2 ] as of the 2020 census .
Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States. [1] A Akutan ... San Juan Island; San Juan Islands; San Juanito Island;
James Island is one of the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington, United States. It lies in Rosario Strait just off the eastern shore of Decatur Island and west of the city of Anacortes. The entire island comprises James Island Marine State Park of the Washington State Park System. It has a land area of 113 acres (46 ha) with 12,335 ...
McConnell Island is one of the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington, United States. It is located less than 1 mile (1,600 m) from the southwest end of Orcas Island. [1] The island was the former private reserve of Thomas Gordon Thompson. A portion of it is currently a nature preserve.
The smaller San Juan Bautista Island and St. Ignace Island separate it from Prince of Wales Island and its nearest community, Craig. The island has a land area of 44.44 square miles (115.1 km 2) [1] and is uninhabited. The first European to sight the island was Aleksei Chirikov in 1741. [2]