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Unknown Island 1 / Grant County Grant 126 113 13 Vashon Island: King 36.9 8,919 8,800 119 Vendovi Island: Skagit 0.34 2 2 0 Victim Island: San Juan 0 0 0 Entire island preserved as part of San Juan Islands National Monument. Viti Rocks Whatcom 0 0 0 Waadah Island: Clallam 0.0636875 0 0 0 Waldon Island Cowlitz 11 11 0 Waldron Island: San Juan 4. ...
McNeil Island is an island in the Northwestern United States, in south Puget Sound southwest of Tacoma, Washington.With a land area of 6.63 square miles (17.2 km 2), it lies in an area of many inhabited small islands, including Anderson Island to the south across Balch Passage, and Fox Island to the north across Carr Inlet.
Topographic Map of Gertrude Island, Washington 47°13′04″N 122°39′36″W / 47.21778°N 122.66000°W / 47.21778; -122 This article about an island in North America is a stub .
San Juan Island is the second-largest and most populous of the San Juan Islands in northwestern Washington, United States. It has a land area of 142.59 km 2 (55.053 sq mi) and a population of 8,632 [ 2 ] as of the 2020 census .
All of the island's public schools are located in Eastsound. The Orcas Island Public Library is located in Eastsound and serves a population of approximately 6,000 card holders. [10] [11] The Orcas Island Library District is a junior-taxing district that funds the Orcas Island Public Library's operating budget through property taxes. The annual ...
Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge was designated in 1982 to protect the entire island and its coast. Approximately 70 percent of the nesting seabird population of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca nest on the island, which includes one of the largest nesting colonies of rhinoceros auklets in the world and the largest nesting ...
The State of Washington began to lease the facility from the federal government in 1981, [7] and later that year the state department of corrections began moving prisoners into the facility, renamed "McNeil Island Corrections Center." The island was deeded to the state government in 1984.
Gedney Island, also called Hat Island, is located in Possession Sound. Possession Sound was named by George Vancouver . On June 3, 1792, Vancouver landed near the present site of Everett and celebrated the birthday of George III by holding a ceremony claiming possession of the land of "New Georgia" for Britain. [ 1 ]