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Depth map showing the three basins of Lake Erie. The islands are in the westernmost, shallowest basin. Glacial grooves stemming from the Wisconsin glaciation at Kelleys Island, Ohio. The Lake Erie Islands are geologically part of the Silurian Columbus Limestone.
Gibraltar Island (or the "Gem of Lake Erie") is an island in Ohio, located within Lake Erie. This small 6.55-acre (0.026 km 2) [1] island is just offshore of South Bass Island. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio. The rocky island is named for its resemblance to the Rock of Gibraltar. [2] [3]
Pataskala was originally called Conine Town, [8] after an early settler of the area, Richard Conine, and his wife Sarah (Van Dorn) Conine. [9] Born in New Jersey, the Conines purchased over 2000 acres in Lima Township, permanently settling in the area in 1821. [9] Conine had sold most of his land by 1850, and in 1851 he laid out plots for ...
Location of Rattlesnake Island in the Bass Islands. Rattlesnake Island is an 85-acre (34 ha) island located in Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, in Ottawa County. It is one of several islands known as the Lake Erie Islands.
Major Danish islands: Samsø; Sejerø; Major Swedish islands: Orust; Hisingen; Tjörn; Other major Atlantic islands: Azores (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Madeira (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Canary Islands (Spain) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Faroe ...
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has an area of 1.29 square miles (3.34 km 2), of which 1.28 square miles (3.32 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water. [7] Manchester is at the junction of U.S. Route 52 and Ohio State Route 136.
Huron Township was at the center of the "Firelands" region of the Connecticut Western Reserve.The first permanent settler in the area that became Huron Township was a Quebec-born trapper, trader and interpreter named John Baptiste Flammand (or, "Flemming"; and often misspelled "Flemmond"), who established a trading post about 1805, approx. two miles inland upon the east bank of the Huron River.