Portage Island is an island in the western part of

Bellingham Bay Bellingham Bay is a bay of the Salish Sea located in Washington State in the United States. It is separated from the Strait of Georgia on the west by the Lummi Peninsula, Portage Island, and Lummi Island. It is bordered on the east by Bellingha ...

Whatcom County, Washington Whatcom County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Canadian Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts of British Columbia) to the north, Okanogan ...

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. It is separated from the Lummi Peninsula by Portage Bay and from the central part of

Lummi Island Lummi Island lies at the southwest corner of Whatcom County, Washington, United States, between the mainland part of the county and offshore San Juan County. The Lummi Indian Reservation is situated on a peninsula east of the island, but it d ...

Hale Passage Hale Passage is the name of two different bodies of water in Puget Sound, in the U.S. state of Washington. *In the north Sound, in Whatcom County, Hale Passage separates Lummi Island from the mainland near Bellingham. *In the south Sound in Pier ...

, in

Whatcom County Whatcom County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Canadian Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts of British Columbia) to the north, Okanogan ...

. Portage Island has a land area of 3.803 km² (1.468 sq mi). There was no resident population as of the 2000 census. According to the Whatcom County Assessors database, the land and the surrounding tide flats are owned by the

Lummi The Lummi ( ; Lummi: ''Xwlemi'' ; also known as Lhaq'temish (), or ''People of the Sea''), governed by the Lummi Nation, are a Native American tribe of the Coast Salish ethnolinguistic group. They are based in the coastal area of the Pacific N ...

Native American tribe. The island is wholly contained within the boundaries of the Lummi Indian Reservation.

References

Portage Island: Blocks 3001 and 3002, Census Tract 108, Whatcom County, Washington
United States Census Bureau Landforms of Whatcom County, Washington Uninhabited islands of Washington (state) {{WhatcomCountyWA-geo-stub