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2. List of islands of Texas - Wikipedia

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   Brazos Island; Buck Nekkid Island (Burleson County) [3] Buckeye Island (Chambers County) [4] Clark Island; Clear Lake Shores (Galveston County) Cove Island (Chambers County) Coulter Island (Chambers County) [5] Coyote Island; Dagger Island; Dewberry Island; Galveston Island; Goat Island (Galveston County) Goat Island (Tarrant County) Grass ...

3. Galveston Island - Wikipedia

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   Galveston Island (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States, about 50 miles (80.5 km) southeast of Houston.The entire island, with the exception of Jamaica Beach, is within the city limits of the City of Galveston in Galveston County.

4. Texas barrier islands - Wikipedia

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   The islands enclose a series of estuaries along the Texas coast and attract tourists for activities such as recreational fishing and dolphin watching. The seven barrier islands, listed from northeast to southwest, are Galveston Island, Follet's Island, Matagorda Island, San José Island, Mustang Island, Padre Island, and Brazos Island. [1]

5. Padre Island - Wikipedia

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   Padre Island is the second-largest island by area in the contiguous United States, after Long Island in New York on the Atlantic Coast. It is about 113 miles (182 km) long [ 2 ] [ 3 ] : 186 and 1.8 miles (3 km) wide, [ 4 ] stretching from the city of Corpus Christi , in the north, to the resort community of South Padre Island in the south.

6. Bolivar Peninsula, Texas - Wikipedia

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   Bolivar Peninsula (/ ˈ b ɒ l ɪ v ər / BOL-i-vər) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,769 at the 2020 census. The communities of Port Bolivar, Crystal Beach, Caplen, Gilchrist, and High Island are located on Bolivar Peninsula.

7. Galveston Island State Park - Wikipedia

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   The saga of protecting the land began in 1950. [6] Maco Stewart Jr., whose father founded Stewart Title Company, owned more than 2,000 acres on the island.In his will, he severed the mineral rights from the surface land rights and gave half of the surface and mineral rights to his wife, Virginia Stewart, and divided the other half between his sons from a former marriage, Wells and Maco III.