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Americas

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Turtle Island (Native American folklore) Turtle Island is a name for Earth or North America, used by some Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a common North American Indigenous creation story and is in some cultures synonymous with " ...
, a name used by several Native American cultures to refer to North America or the Earth in general * Turtle Island, Bermuda * Another name for Tortuga, an island in Haiti * Turtle Island (Lake Erie), near Toledo, Ohio * La Tortue, Saint Barthélemy, or Turtle Island, in the French Caribbean


Asia and Oceania

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Turtle Island (Newcastle Bay) Turtle Island is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, located in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, east of Cape York Peninsula, in Queensland, Australia. The island is located in Newcastle Bay at the mouth of Escape River and ...
, in the Torres Strait Islands archipelago in Australia * Turtle Islands National Park, a collective name for three islands in Sabah, Malaysia * Another name for
Kusu Island Kusu Island is one of the Southern Islands in Singapore, located about to the south of the main island of Singapore and below the Singapore Straits. "Kusu" means "Tortoise Island" or "Turtle Island" in Hokkien; the island is also known as ' ...
, an island in Singapore * Another name for Ko Tao, an island in Thailand


Fiji

* Another name for
Nanuya Levu Nanuya Levu (pronounced ) is a privately owned island of the Yasawa Group in Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in t ...
, a privately owned island of the Yasawa Group in Fiji * Another name for
Vatoa Vatoa (pronounced ) (known as Turtle Island after Cook's visit) is an outlier of Fiji's Lau Group. History Vatoa was the only island of present-day Fiji visited by James Cook. The island was sighted on 2 July 1774. The next day, a Sunday, th ...
, in the Lau Group in Fiji


Philippines

* Turtle Island, Negros Oriental, a peninsula in the southern coast of Negros Island in the Philippines *
Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi Turtle Islands, officially the Municipality of Turtle Islands, is a 5th class municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 5,683 people. It is also known as Philippine Turtle Islan ...
, a group of islands in the Southern Philippines


Taiwan

* Turtle Island (Matsu), an island in Beigan, Matsu, Lienchiang County, Fujian Province, Taiwan * Another name for Guishan Island, an island off the northeast coast of Taiwan


In media, arts and entertainment


Music

* ''Turtle Island'' (album), the 1989 debut solo album by Paul Hyde of the Payola$ * "Turtle Island", a track from Mike Oldfield's ''
Tr3s Lunas ''Tr3s Lunas'' is the 21st studio album by English musician and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released in June 2002 by Warner Music Spain. After his previous album '' The Millennium Bell'' (1999), Oldfield started work on his first release for Mus ...
'' album * "Turtle Island", a track from Beach House's 2008 ''
Devotion Devotion or Devotions may refer to: Religion * Faith, confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept * Anglican devotions, private prayers and practices used by Anglican Christians * Buddhist devotion, commitment to religious observance * Cat ...
'' album *
Turtle Island Quartet The Turtle Island Quartet is a string quartet that plays hybrids of jazz, classical, and rock music. The group was formed in 1985 by David Balakrishnan, Darol Anger, and Mark Summer in San Francisco. They released their first album on Windham H ...
, modern-day jazz string quartet


Print

* ''Turtle Island'' (book), a 1974 book of poetry by Gary Snyder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry * ''Turtle Island: Tales of the Algonquian Nations'', a 1999 children's book by
Jane Louise Curry Jane Louise Curry, born September 24, 1932, in East Liverpool, Ohio, is a prolific author of adventure, fantasy, mystery, time travel, and American Indian tales for older children and teenagers. She has written 39 books. Her novels include the f ...
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Turtle Island News ''Turtle Island News'' is a weekly community newspaper, published in Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada. The ''Turtle Island News'' also covers First Nation and aboriginal issues across North America. The ''Turtle Island News'' has a circulation of 20,00 ...
'', Canadian Native People's newspaper


Other uses

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Turtle Island Foods Turtle Island Foods is an American company founded in 1980 in Forest Grove, Oregon and headquartered in Hood River, which produces Tofurky, a popular vegetarian and vegan alternative to turkey, as well other meatless products. All of the company ...
, makers of the Tofurky brand of soy products *
Turtle Island (horse) Turtle Island (16 March 1991 – 4 July 2014) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was one of the leading British two-year-olds of 1993 when he won four of his seven races including the Norfolk Stakes, Phoenix ...
, (born 1991), British-trained thoroughbred racehorse


See also

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Turtle Islands (disambiguation) Turtle Islands can refer to: * Turtle Islands National Park, Malaysia *Turtle Islands Wildlife Sanctuary, the Philippines * Turtle Islands, Caroline Islands, an atoll in the Caroline Islands *Turtle Islands, Sierra Leone *Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi, ...
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Aspidochelone According to the tradition of the '' Physiologus'' and medieval bestiaries, the aspidochelone is a fabled sea creature, variously described as a large whale or vast sea turtle, and a giant sea monster with huge spines on the ridge of its back. ...
, a fabled sea creature, said to be mistaken for an island * Turtle Mountain (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo