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Hog Island is an island roughly 2 acres (0.8 ha) in size located approximately 5 mi (8 km) south of the entrance to Tomales Bay in the West Marin area of Marin County, California. While waters to its west are deep enough for small ships to enter Tomales Bay, at low tide the shallows to the east may be wadeable to the eastern shore of the bay.
Tomales Bay is a long, narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Marin County in northern California in the United States. It is approximately 15 mi (24 km) long and averages nearly 1.0 mi (1.6 km) wide, effectively separating the Point Reyes Peninsula from the mainland of Marin County. It is located approximately 30 mi (48 km) northwest of San ...
Hog Island (Machipongo, Virginia) Coordinates: 37°24′58″N 75°41′28″W. Hog Island is one of the Virginia Barrier Islands located southeast of Exmore in Northampton County, Virginia, and is a part of the Virginia Coast Reserve of The Nature Conservancy. The island, then known as Machipongo Island was first settled in 1672 by a group of ...
Coordinates: 37°23′34″N75°42′31″W37.39278°N 75.70861°W. Broadwater is a former town and unincorporated community located on Hog Island, one of the Virginia Barrier Islands, in Northampton County, Virginia, United States. The town is the origin of the Hog Island Sheep. After several hurricanes that caused severe shoreline erosion the ...
It is in Napa County, California, and managed as part of the Napa-Sonoma Marshes Wildlife Area. [15] [16] Its coordinates are 38°12′09″N 122°18′16″W / 38.20250°N 122.30444°W / 38.20250; -122.30444 ( Green Island ) [1] , and the United States Geological Survey measured its elevation as 23 ft (7.0 m) in
Hog Island. / 38.15917°N 122.53833°W / 38.15917; -122.53833. Hog Island is an island in the wetlands of the Petaluma River in Sonoma County, California, [2] located at 38°09′33″N 122°32′18″W [1] near the Marin County line. San Antonio Creek enters the river just west of this island. [3] It is mentioned in a newspaper article ...
Nick's Cove is the site of a long-standing restaurant and vacation camp in Marin County, California. [1] It is on the northeast shore of Tomales Bay 3.25 miles (5.2 km) south-southwest of Tomales, [2] at an elevation of 7 feet (2 m). [1] Hog Island is in the middle of Tomales Bay, to the west of Nick's Cove, and Point Reyes National Seashore ...
It crosses under U.S. 101 where it was diverted around 1930 to the Schultz Slough and the Petaluma River. This diversion is 5.2 miles (8.4 km) upstream from its historical connection to the San Antonio Slough just west of Hog Island in the wetlands south of Petaluma, California. The diversion upstream lowered the creek's gradient, contributing ...