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Entire island preserved as Clark Island Marine State Park. Cliff Island San Juan 0 0 0 Clover Island: Benton 0.25 0 0 0 Cluster Islands San Juan 0 0 0 Colville Island: San Juan 0 0 0 Cone Islands Skagit 0 0 0 Coon Island San Juan 0 0 0 Cotton Point Island: San Juan 0.0004 0 0 0 Entire island preserved as part of San Juan Islands National Monument.
Teraina (written also Teeraina, [1] also known as Washington Island – these two names are constitutional [2]) is a coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and part of the Northern Line Islands which belong to Kiribati. Obsolete names of Teraina are New Marquesas, Prospect Island, and New York Island.
Also shown: Victoria (V), part of the Leech River Fault (unlabeled), and part of the Olympic–Wallowa Lineament. The Puget Sound faults under the heavily populated Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland) of Washington state form a regional complex of interrelated seismogenic (earthquake-causing) geologic faults. These include (from north to south ...
Victoria Island (Inuinnaqtun: Kitlineq) [5] [6] is a large island in the Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the eighth-largest island in the world , and at 217,291 km 2 (83,897 sq mi) 1 in area, it is Canada's second-largest island .
King William Island (French: Île du Roi-Guillaume; previously: King William Land; Inuktitut: Qikiqtaq) [3] is an island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, which is part of the Arctic Archipelago. In area it is between 12,516 km 2 (4,832 sq mi) [ 4 ] and 13,111 km 2 (5,062 sq mi) [ 5 ] making it the 61st-largest island in the world and Canada ...
The island is located between Prince Patrick Island in the northwest, Eglinton Island in the west, and Byam Martin Island in the east. Across Viscount Melville Sound in the south lies Victoria Island. The island has little or no vegetation. Where continuous vegetation occurs, it usually consists of hummocks of mosses, lichens, grasses, and sedges.
D'Arcy Island on the Canadian side of the strait was a leper colony for Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Older USGS maps, such as the 1976 edition of the Victoria quadrangle (1:250,000 scale), show Haro Strait as encompassing Boundary Pass, passing south of Saturna Island.
Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun: Iqaluktuuttiaq [9] Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ; 2021 population 1,760; [6] population centre 1,403 [7]) is a hamlet located on Victoria Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is the largest of the two, Ulukhaktok in the Northwest Territories is the other