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Indian Island is a small island of the USGS Topo and Historical Topographic Map Collection for Point Place, Ohio-1934
Retrieved March 13, 2014.
Indian Island is a small island of the U.S. state
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of Michigan
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, located at the north end of Maumee Bay
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in Lake Erie
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. It is located just off shore of the northeast tip of the " Lost Peninsula", an exclave created by the Michigan-Ohio boundary line. It is part of Erie Township in Monroe County.
It was never known to have been inhabited. On older USGS
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topographic map
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s, it was labeled (possibly erroneously) as "Odeen Island", while an island nearby to the west was referred to as "Indian Island".Retrieved March 13, 2014.
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