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The San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge is in the San Juan Islands of the Salish Sea, north of Puget Sound, in Washington.Created in 1976, it comprises 83 small, uninhabited islands, scattered throughout the San Juans, with a combined area of approximately 454 acres (1.84 km 2).
Located close to the east part of the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island, [8] Shoal Harbour MBS was originally home to W̱sáneć (Saanich) people. W̱sáneć (Saanich), possessing a meaning of "raised up" in Saanich, [9] are indigenous nations who lived across the San Juan Islands and along the eastern and northern shores of the Saanich Peninsula. [10]
Just northwest of the northern tip of Henry Island lies Battleship Island, a State bird sanctuary. Except for Stuart Island, Henry Island is the westernmost of the San Juan Islands. It has a land area of 4.126 km 2 (1.593 sq mi) and had a total of19 permanent residents as of the 2010 census. [1] Henry Island was named by the Wilkes Expedition ...
The island's entire 145 acres (59 ha) comes under the protection of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is cooperatively managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission as Matia Island Marine State Park. Matia Island is a National Wildlife Refuge, part of the San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge. A 2-acre (0.81 ha ...
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.
The effort started after a 2017 survey discovered that only 120 breeding pairs of the bird remained on the island, and of those pairs, some were killed off two years later during a “huge storm ...
San Juan Islands National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in the Salish Sea in the state of Washington.The monument protects archaeological sites of the Coast Salish peoples, lighthouses and relics of early European American settlers in the Pacific Northwest, and biodiversity of the island life in the region.
Lime Kiln Point State Park is a 42-acre Washington state park on the western shore of San Juan Island in the San Juan archipelago.The park is considered one of the best places in the world to view wild orcas from a land-based facility. [2]