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Entire island preserved as Blind Island Marine State Park. Boulder Island San Juan 0 0 0 Brant Island Whatcom 0 0 0 Brown Island: San Juan 0.25 22 17 5 Buck Island San Juan 0 0 0 Burrows Island Skagit 0 0 0 Cactus Islands San Juan 0 0 0 Camano Island: Island 40.55 17,348 15,650 1,698 Has two state parks, Cama Beach and Camano Island State Park ...
San Juan Islands (in white) and surrounding region Location of the San Juan Islands. The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of Washington state, and form the core of San Juan County.
Destruction Island (also known historically as Green Island [1] and Isla de Dolores/Island of Sorrows [2]) is a 30-acre (12 ha) island located approximately 3.5 miles (6 km) off the Washington coast. Home to seabirds, shorebirds, and marine mammals, it is part of the Quillayute Needles National Wildlife Refuge. [3]
Uninhabited islands of Washington (state) (51 P) Pages in category "Islands of Washington (state)" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
On August 8, 1970, the infamous Penn Cove capture of several orcas along with the deaths of several orcas occurred in Penn Cove off the island's east coast. [23] In December 1984, the island was the site of a violent encounter between law enforcement and white nationalist and organized crime leader Robert Jay Mathews of the group The Order. A ...
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 northernmost Skull Island is located off the coast of Orcas Island in Massacre Bay, the most northern extension of the island's West Sound. [1] It is identified as 3.2-acre (1.3 ha) Skull Island State Park Property by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission. [2] It was named for holding skulls and bones of a band of Lummi who ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Islands of Washington (state). It includes Islands that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Uninhabited islands of Washington (state)"