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Washington Island. Washington Island is an island of the state of Wisconsin situated in Lake Michigan. Lying about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of the tip of the Door Peninsula, it is part of Door County, Wisconsin. [1] The island has a year-round population of 708 people according to the 2010 census.
The town of Washington Island is made up of a group of small islands that includes Plum Island, Detroit Island, Hog Island, Rock Island, Pilot Island, Fish Island, and the largest, Washington Island. The majority of the population of the town lives on Washington Island and many of the other smaller islands are partly or entirely protected areas ...
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.
Washington Island (Minnesota) in Lake County, Minnesota; Washington Island (New York) in Jefferson County, New York; Teraina, also known as Washington Island, Kiribati; Washington Islands Wilderness in Washington state; An 18th-century name for Ua Huka, later extended as the "Washington Islands" to include all of the northern Marquesas Islands
Washington Island is approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) long and 0.5 mi (0.80 km) wide. Like the rest of the Isle Royale archipelago, the island is an ancient ridge of basalt oriented from the southwest to the northeast. [1] Washington Island is separated by Grace Harbor from Isle Royale.
Entire island preserved as Cutts Island State Park. Cypress Island: Skagit 6.23 10 7 3 Deadman Island Skagit 0 0 0 Deadman Island / Shark Reef San Juan 0.005 0 0 0 Debays Island Skagit 0 0 0 Decatur Island: San Juan 3.52 96 78 18 Deception Island Island 0 0 0 Destruction Island: Jefferson 0.05 0 0 0 Dinner Island: San Juan 0 0 0 Doe Island: San ...
The volunteer-led construction of the church began in 1983 and was modeled after the Borgund Stave Church in Borgund, Lærdal, Norway, which was built in 1150.It was created to reflect the Scandinavian heritage of Washington Island and was originally proposed by James Reiff, who was the acting pastor of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church from 1978–1985.
Vashon Island sits in the midpoint of southern Puget Sound, between Seattle and Tacoma, Washington.In the nearby Pacific Ocean, roughly 170 miles (270 km) west of Vashon Island, lies the 700-mile (1,130 km) tectonic boundary known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and as such, Vashon Island is one of many areas at risk for earthquakes or related natural disasters.