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West Sister Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio located in the Western Basin of Lake Erie.The 82 acres (33 ha) island, jointly managed by the United States Coast Guard and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is Ohio's only designated Wilderness Area, the West Sister Island National Wildlife Refuge.
According to the club's website the U.S. Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley have visited the club to do some fishing. [2] The Club may have bought the island from either a certain "Colonel Blanchard", the first resident of the island, [3] or Rudolph Siefield, an Ohio businessman. [4]
They include Kelleys Island, Erie Island, [1] Pelee Island, the Bass Islands, and several others. The majority of these islands are under the sovereignty of the State of Ohio in the United States. Pelee Island is the only major inhabited island within the province of Ontario, while the smaller Middle Island is the southmost point of land in Canada.
OAK HARBOR - Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge will offer its West Sister Island Sunset Birding Cruise fundraising event 6:30-9 p.m. May 4.
Before the British established a colony on the Andaman, the Sister islands were visited occasionally by the Onge people of Little Andaman Island for fishing. They may have been a waystation for their temporary settlement of Rutland Island between 1890 and 1930. [7] The islands have been a wildlife refuge since 1987, with 0.36 km 2. [8]
Sister Islands (Wisconsin) The Sisters (California) Middle Sister Island, Lake Erie, Ohio; West Sister Island, Lake Erie, Ohio; Sisters Island, Michigan, in Monroe County; Sister Islands, in Lake Bonaparte (New York) A small group of islands just northwest of Grand Isle in Lake Champlain, Vermont
West Sister Island or Te-joma-de is a small uninhabited island in the Andaman Archipelago, at the northern side of the Duncan Passage, [1] about 6 km southeast of Passage Island and 18 km north of North Brother. The island is pear-shaped, about 380 m long in the NE-SW direction and 340 m wide at the base.
Caesar Creek State Park is a public recreation area located in southwestern Ohio, five miles (8 km) east of Waynesville, in Warren, Clinton, and Greene counties. [2] The park is leased by the State from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who in the 1970s erected a dam on Caesar Creek to impound a 2,830-acre (1,150 ha) lake. [2]