The Strawberry Islands are a small chain of four islands located on the

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

side of Green Bay between

Chambers Island Chambers Island, named in honor of Col. Talbot Chambers, is a 2,834 acre (4.428 sq. mi.) island in Green Bay, about off the coast of the Door Peninsula, near Gibraltar, Wisconsin. It is part of the Town of Gibraltar in Door County. A Native A ...

and

Peninsula State Park Peninsula State Park is a List of Wisconsin state parks, Wisconsin state park with eight miles (13 km) of Green Bay (Lake Michigan), Green Bay shoreline in Door County, Wisconsin, Door County. Peninsula is the third largest state park in Wis ...

. The islands are part of the Town of

Gibraltar, Wisconsin The Town of Gibraltar is located in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,021 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Fish Creek and Juddville are located in the town. Geography According to the United States ...

. The islands were likely occupied for thousands of years by

indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

. Gradually the historic

Ojibwe The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...

people moved into the area around the

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, where they competed with the existing

Sioux The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (; Dakota language, Dakota: Help:IPA, /otʃʰeːtʰi ʃakoːwĩ/) are groups of Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes and First Nations in Canada, First Nations peoples in North America. The ...

(Lakota). They pushed the Sioux west into the Great Plains, with their last battle occurring in 1745. The islands and the adjacent Strawberry Channel were part of a border dispute between Wisconsin and

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

that was eventually resolved in the 1926 United States

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case ''Michigan v. Wisconsin''. The northernmost island of the chain is Pirate Island, which at high water levels is little more than a reef awash. The next island to the south is Jack Island, and the next to the south is Little Strawberry Island. The largest island at the very southern tip of the chain is named Adventure Island. Today, all but Pirate Island are privately owned."Strawberry Islands"
Door County, Wisconsin

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Web-Map of Door County, Wisconsin

Web-Map of Door County, Wisconsin

Web-Map of Door County, Wisconsin

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