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Sentinel Island (other)
Sentinel Island may refer to: * Sentinel Island (Tasmania), Australia * Sentinel Island (Alaska), location of the Sentinel Island Light lighthouse * Sentinel Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands, U.S. * North Sentinel Island North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by ..., part of the Andaman Islands, India, and home to the isolated Sentinelese * South Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman Islands, India {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentinel Island (Tasmania)
Sentinel Island is a granite island, with an area of 10 ha, in south-eastern Australia. It is part of Tasmania’s Sentinel Island Group, lying in eastern Bass Strait off the north-west coast of Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group. Until 1985 it was used for grazing sheep. Sentinel Island Group The Sentinel Island Group includes: * Sentinel Island * Gossys Reef * Little Island Fauna Seabirds and waders recorded as breeding on the island include little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, silver gull, Pacific gull, Caspian tern and sooty oystercatcher. The metallic skink is present.Brothers, Nigel; Pemberton, David; Pryor, Helen; & Halley, Vanessa. (2001). ''Tasmania’s Offshore Islands: seabirds and other natural features''. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Hobart. See also * List of islands of Tasmania Tasmania is the smallest and southernmost state of Australia. The Tasmanian mainland itself is an island, with an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentinel Island (Alaska)
The Sentinel Island Light is a lighthouse in Alaska adjacent to Lynn Canal. Location The Sentinel Island Light is at the northern entrance to the Favorite Channel, between the mainland and Lincoln and Shelter Islands. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 2002. History On August 5, 1910, the steamship ''Princess May'' grounded on rocks just north of Sentinel Island. Although the ship was successfully taken off the rocks on September 5, 1910, photographic images showing the ship pointing in the air at low tide became famous.Turner, ''Pacific Princesses'', at pages 109 to 112. The 1930s lighthouse, replacing an earlier wooden structure, was built for $35,310. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Other than the lighthouse, the district included four other contributing buildings, four contributing structures, and two contributing sites. and See also * List of lighthouses in the United States * National Register of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sentinel Island (Washington)
Sentinel Island may refer to: * Sentinel Island (Tasmania), Australia * Sentinel Island (Alaska), location of the Sentinel Island Light lighthouse * Sentinel Island (Washington), one of the San Juan Islands, U.S. * North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman Islands, India, and home to the isolated Sentinelese * South Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman Islands, India See also *Sentinel (other) Sentinel may refer to: Places Mountains * Mount Sentinel, a mountain next to the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana * Sentinel Buttress, a volcanic crag on James Ross Island, Antarctica * Sentinel Dome, a naturally occurring gra ... * Sentinelese (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Juan Islands
The San Juan Islands are 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. In the archipelago, four islands are accessible to vehicular and foot traffic via the Washington State Ferries system.San Juan Islands Route Map , Washington State Ferries 
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North Sentinel Island
North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have defended, often by force, their protected isolation from the outside world. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Act of 1956 prohibits travel to the island, and any approach closer than , in order to protect the remaining tribal community from "mainland" infectious diseases which they (likely) have no acquired immunity against. The area is patrolled by the Indian Navy. Nominally, the island belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In practice, Indian authorities recognise the islanders' desire to be left alone, restricting outsiders to remote monitoring (by boat and sometimes air) from a reasonably safe distance; the Indian government will not prosecu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
