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Chambers Island Airport is located on the island. It is a private use airport owned by Chambers Island Flying Corp. with a single 1,200 by 40 feet (366 by 12 m) gravel runway. [ 25 ] It was originally constructed as part of an attempt in the 1920s to turn much of the island into a golf course and upscale residential area. [ 26 ]
7 mi. NW of Fish Creek at NW tip of Chambers Island 45°12′05″N 87°21′50″W / 45.201389°N 87.363889°W / 45.201389; -87.363889 ( Chambers Island Lighthouse Fish Creek
Door County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island. [5] The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, which described a failed raid by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe to capture Washington Island from the rival ...
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Mackaysee Lake is a lake located in Door County, Wisconsin. [1] The lake is found on Chambers Island in Green Bay of Lake Michigan.Mackaysee Lake has a surface area of 347 acres (1.40 km 2) and a max depth of 27 ft (8.2 m). [2]
Fish Creek Island is a 48-acre (19-hectare) island on the Ohio River in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States. The island is located across the river from Captina , West Virginia, south of Moundsville , and north of the mouth of Fish Creek, from which it takes its name.
Fish Creek sits on the site of a Menominee and Ojibwa village known as Ma-go-she-kah-ning, or "trout fishing". [5] The first settler of Fish Creek was Increase Claflin and his family circa 1844, [6] but the village founder is considered to be entrepreneur Asa Thorp. Loggers and fishermen started settling in Fish Creek in 1853. [7]
The Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (ORINWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in non-contiguous sites consisting of islands along 362 miles (583 km) [2] of the Ohio River, primarily (85% of acreage) [3] in the U.S. state of West Virginia.