Wood Island (Texas)
Wood Island may refer to: *Wood Island, an alternate name for Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay, California, United States *Wood Island (Marin County), in California *Wood Island Light, a lighthouse on Wood Island in Saco Bay, Maine, United States *Wood Island (MBTA station), a rapid transit station near Boston, Massachusetts, United States *Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada *Wood Island (New Brunswick), an island in the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick, Canada *Wood Island (Livingston Island), an island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica *Wood Island, County Down in County Down, Northern Ireland {{disambiguation ...
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Yerba Buena Island
Yerba Buena Island (Spanish: ''Isla Yerba Buena'') sits in San Francisco Bay within the borders of the City and County of San Francisco. The Yerba Buena Tunnel runs through its center and connects the western and eastern spans of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, linking the city with Oakland, California. Treasure Island is connected by a causeway to Yerba Buena Island. According to the United States Census Bureau, Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island together have a land area of with a total population of 2,500 as of the 2010 census. Yerba Buena Island has had several other names over the decades: Sea Bird Island, Wood Island, and Goat Island. The island may have been named after the pueblo of Yerba Buena, which was named for the plant of the same name that was abundant in the area. The plant's English and Spanish common name, Yerba buena, is an alternate form of the Spanish (literally meaning 'good herb'), generally used to describe local species of the mint family. ...
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