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Middle Island (other)
Middle Island may refer to: ;Australia * Middle Island, off the coast of 1770 and Agnes Water, Queensland * Middle Island (South Australia), South Australia * Middle Island (Warrnambool), south-western Victoria * Western Australia: ** Middle Island (Lacepede Islands) ** Middle Island (King Sound) ** Middle Island (Barrow Island) ** Middle Island (Houtman Abrolhos) ** Middle Island (Western Australia) ;Canada * Middle Island (Lake Erie), in Ontario, the southernmost point of land in Canada, and part of Point Pelee National Park ;United States * Middle Island (West Virginia), on the Ohio River * Middle Island, New York, settlement on Long Island * Middle Island (Lake Huron), Michigan island in Lake Huron ;Elsewhere * Middle Island, archaic 19th century name for New Zealand's South Island * Middle Island, Tristan da Cunha Middle Island is a small, uninhabited island in the South Atlantic Ocean, part of the Nightingale Islands. It is governed as part of Tristan da Cunha, an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island (South Australia)
Middle Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located in Spencer Gulf within Pondalowie Bay on the south-western coast of Yorke Peninsula. It is the largest of three islands within the bay with an approximate area of . It first obtained protected area status as a fauna conservation reserve declared under the ''Crown Lands Act 1929-1966'' on 16 March 1967 and is currently located within the boundaries of the Innes National Park. It is also located within a habitat protection zone of the Southern Spencer Gulf Marine Park. DEWNR lists the islands as 'no access' areas for the general public. Middle Island''Atlas of Living Australia. Accessed 2014-01-18.'' Little penguin breeding sites were noted in a 1996 survey of South Australia's offshore islands. See also *Royston Island Royston Island (also known as North Island) is an island in the Australian state of South Australia at the northern end of Pondalowie Bay on the south-west extremity of Yorke P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island (West Virginia)
Middle Island is a bar island on the Ohio River at St. Marys in Pleasants County, West Virginia, USA. Middle Island lends its name to West Virginia's Middle Island Creek and lies at its confluence with "The Thoroughfare", a channel of the Ohio River that separates the island from the riverbank. A bridge (currently being renovated in 2019) connects Middle Island to downtown St. Marys. Middle Island is protected as part of the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge. See also *List of islands of West Virginia This is a list of islands of West Virginia. See also * List of islands on the Potomac River {{Authority control * Islands in West Virginia, List of West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and South ... References River islands of West Virginia Islands of Pleasants County, West Virginia Islands of the Ohio River {{PleasantsCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island, Falkland Islands
Middle Island is one of the Hummock Island group in the Falkland Islands. It is near West Falkland, to its west, near the estuary of the Chartres River in King George Bay It is to the south east of Hummock Island Hummock Island is the largest of a group of islands in King George Bay in the Falkland Islands. It has a land area of and is about long in a north-west to south-east direction. Hummock Island is off the western coast of West Falkland, in a .... Middle Island has a land area of and its cone rises to . It is believed that it was used for grazing for a short time before 1930 but has been not been grazed since then and is free of predators. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island, Hong Kong
Middle Island, also known as Tong Po Chau () is an island of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of Southern District. Geography Middle Island is located 100 m off the southern coast of Hong Kong Island, between Deep Water Bay and Repulse Bay. Features Middle Island houses one of the three clubhouses of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. The clubhouse is accessible by the Club's own sampan ferry from Deep Water Bay. Close to the clubhouse is a beach that is accessible to the public. The island also houses the Middle Island Clubhouse of the Aberdeen Boat Club. The Clubhouse is open daily except Mondays. There is also a Tin Hau temple and a Tai Wong Ye temple at openlife.com.hk on the islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island, Tristan Da Cunha
Middle Island is a small, uninhabited island in the South Atlantic Ocean, part of the Nightingale Islands. It is governed as part of Tristan da Cunha, an archipelago that is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The island is part of the Nightingale Islands group Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International as a breeding site for seabird Seabirds (also known as marine birds) are birds that are adapted to life within the marine environment. While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same enviro ...s and endemic landbirds. It is also known as Alex Island. References External linksPhotograph of Stoltenhoff and Middle Island Islands of Tristan da Cunha Uninhabited islands of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Important Bird Areas of Saint Helena Seabird colonies {{TristandaCunha-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The South Island covers , making it the world's 12th-largest island. At low altitude, it has an oceanic climate. The South Island is shaped by the Southern Alps which run along it from north to south. They include New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki / Mount Cook at . The high Kaikōura Ranges lie to the northeast. The east side of the island is home to the Canterbury Plains while the West Coast is famous for its rough coastlines such as Fiordland, a very high proportion of native bush and national parks, and the Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers. The main centres are Christchurch and Dunedin. The economy relies on agriculture and fishing, tourism, and general manufacturing and services. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island (Lake Huron)
Middle Island is an island in Lake Huron, located in Alpena Township, Alpena County, Michigan. The island is positioned little over a mile and a half from the community of Lakewood on the mainland. The Middle Island Light, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and built in 1905, lies on the eastern edge of the island. It used to be home to a Life-Saving Station. The light house was automated in 1961, and regular staffing ceased. The island is within the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It preserves the lighthouse along with the shipwreck ''Portsmouth (1867)''. The Middle Island Sinkhole is located around 500 foot north of the island at . The sinkhole is about 75 feet deep and is available for divers to explore. The sinkhole has been studied by the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) is a laboratory in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island, New York
Middle Island is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 10,483 at the 2010 census. It is situated between the hamlets of Coram and Ridge, to the west and east, respectively, and Rocky Point and Yaphank to the north and south. The name derives from the fact that it lies approximately halfway between the eastern and western ends of Long Island (Montauk Point and the East River) as well as halfway between the northern and southern boundaries (the Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean). History The European-American history of Middle Island goes back at least to 1766, when the first Presbyterian church was built. Rev. David Rose, who was also a doctor and a pastor of the South Haven church, covered his immense parish on horseback. He filled his saddle bags with Bibles and medicines to minister to his frontier congregation. In 1766 the parish opened a cemetery just across from the church. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Pelee National Park
Point Pelee National Park (; french: Parc national de la Pointe-Pelée) is a national park in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada where it extends into Lake Erie. The word is French for 'bald'. Point Pelee consists of a peninsula of land, mainly of marsh and woodland habitats, that tapers to a sharp point as it extends into Lake Erie. Middle Island, also part of Point Pelee National Park, was acquired in 2000 and is just north of the Canada–United States border in Lake Erie. Point Pelee is the southernmost point of mainland Canada, and is located on a foundation of glacial sand, silt and gravel that bites into Lake Erie. This spit of land is slightly more than seven kilometres long by wide at its northern base. Established in 1918, Point Pelee was the first national park in Canada to be established for conservation. It was designated as a Ramsar site on 27 May 1987. History Aboriginal people lived on Point Pelee for many years before European colonization, dating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island (Warrnambool)
Middle Island is a small (c. 2 ha), rocky island lying close to the shore of south-western Victoria, Australia, in Stingray Bay next to the city of Warrnambool. It is a wildlife sanctuary that is home to breeding colonies of little penguins (''Eudyptula minor'') and short-tailed shearwaters (''Ardenna tenuirostris''). It is closed to general public access because of the low penguin population. Maremma Project Because of the proximity of the island to the coast, it is accessible at low tide to predators such as foxes (''Vulpes vulpes'') and stray dogs. As a result, the penguin colony declined to a low of ten breeding pairs by 2005. In 2006 an attempt began to protect the birds from foxes by the use of Maremma Sheepdogs trained to protect penguins rather than sheep and to act as a deterrent to foxes. The dogs, who work in pairs, spend five or six days a week on the island during the breeding season from October to March. Since then the penguin population has been incre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island (Lake Erie)
Middle Island is a small island, just in area. It is the southernmost point of land in Canada, located at 41°41'N, 82°41"W (41.685,-82.684), or about 41.7 degrees north latitude. It lies in Lake Erie, just south of Pelee Island, and is part of Point Pelee National Park. It forms part of the province of Ontario. The southernmost part of the island lies some from the U.S. maritime boundary. The distance to the northernmost point of land in Canada—Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island—is . The southernmost point of Middle Island is at a latitude of North 41°40'53", which is at a slightly lower latitude than the southernmost point in Michigan and slightly farther south than downtown Chicago. Twenty-seven U.S. states lie fully or partly north of this point, as do European cities such as Rome and Barcelona and Asian cities such as Sapporo. Thirteen states are entirely north of this latitude (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Island (Western Australia)
Middle Island ( French: Île du Milieu) is an island off the south coast of Western Australia in the Recherche Archipelago, around south-east of Esperance. It is known for its pink lake, Lake Hillier. Goose Island lies just adjacent to the north. History The island was named by d'Entrecasteaux. Matthew Flinders, along with his botanist Robert Brown, visited in January 1802 and Flinders climbed the peak (subsequently named Flinders Peak) to survey the surrounding islands. John Thistle, '' Investigator's'' Master, collected some salt samples from the pink lake later known as Lake Hillier. Philip Parker King anchored off the island in 1818 and lost two anchors that were later recovered in 1973. Sealers operated from the island throughout the 1800s. Bay whaling operations were conducted here in the 1870s and, possibly, as early as the 1840s. According to legend, pirate Black Jack Anderson, based himself on Middle Island sometime after his arrival at King George Sound (now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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