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The islands are very narrow in many places and one can easily see water, the Chesapeake Bay and the Honga River, on both sides of Maryland Route 335 which travels through the islands. [ 3 ] Upper Hoopers island is located at N. 38°20' W. 76°14 and Middle Hoopers island is located at N. 38°16' W. 76°11.
Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island.
Kent Island is the largest island in the Chesapeake Bay and a historic place in Maryland.To the east, a narrow channel known as the Kent Narrows barely separates the island from the Delmarva Peninsula, and on the other side, the island is separated from Sandy Point, an area near Annapolis, by roughly four miles (6.4 km) of water.
Tilghman Island is located at (38.708795, −76.335016 [ 4 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2 ), of which 2.7 square miles (7.0 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2 ) (4.91%) is water.
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Scientific study of Plummers Island began in 1899, when botanist Charles Louis Pollard [3] formed the Washington Biologists' Field Club and began the search for a field camp near the club's Washington, D.C. home. [2] [4] The club leased the island in 1901, and bought it seven years later; [2] the island is now owned by the U.S. National Park ...
Attempts to protect the island by building stone walls were unsuccessful. The last family left the island in 1918 when a tropical storm damaged the island's church. A few of the former residents continued living on the island during the fishing season until 1922 when the church was moved to Fairmount, Maryland. [3]
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