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In 1820, the islands were named the Gilbert Islands or îles Gilbert (in French) by Adam Johann von Krusenstern, a Baltic German Admiral of the Russian Czar after the British Captain Thomas Gilbert, who crossed the archipelago in 1788. French captain Louis Duperrey was the first to map the whole
File:Gilbert Islands Aerial Imagery, 1943.jpg. ... Map Image 6668 From the World War II: Gilbert Islands Collection (COLL/3653) at the Marine Corps History Division
Goose Island is a 160-acre (65 ha) artificial island in Chicago, Illinois, formed by the North Branch of the Chicago River on the west and the North Branch Canal on the east. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) across at its widest point.
Northern Illinois is dominated by the Chicago metropolitan area, including the city of Chicago, its suburbs, and the adjoining exurban area into which the metropolis is expanding. The " collar counties " are the five counties that surround the centrally located Cook County in the Chicago metropolitan area: DuPage County, Kane County, Lake ...
Specifically, Amasa Gilbert, a pioneer who was a part of the Gilberts family. [5] In 1855, the Gilberts sold their land to Elijah Wilcox. [6] Opening in 1907, the Elgin and Belvidere Electric Company opened the "Elgin and Belvidere Electric Railway", connecting Elgin, Illinois to Belvidere, Illinois, with a stop at Gilberts.
U.S. Route 20 (US 20) in the U.S. state of Illinois is a major arterial highway that runs from the Iowa state line at East Dubuque at the northwestern tip of Illinois to the Indiana state line at Chicago south of the Chicago Skyway, a distance of 233.93 miles (376.47 km). [1]
Horse Island, Lake Erie, near Gibraltar; Huron Islands, Lake Superior, has lighthouse; Indian Island, Lake Erie; Ile Aux Galets, Lake Michigan, location of Skillagalee Lighthouse; Isle Royale, location of Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior; Katechay Island, in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron; Les Cheneaux Islands, group of 36 inhabited islands ...
Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...