Whiskey Island is an island in northern

Lake Michigan Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is the second-largest of the Great Lakes by volume () and the third-largest by surface area (), after Lake Superior and Lake Huron. To the east, its basin is conjoined with that o ...

, part of the Beaver Island archipelago. It is about ⅜ of a square mile (1.0 km².) in size. Although unininhabited, it is politically part of St. James Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan The island is also called ''Whisky Island''. A shoal off the island was the site of the loss of the schooner ''

Chandler J. Wells Chandler J. "Chan" Wells (1814–1887) was Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, serving from 1866 to 1867. Early life He was born in Utica, New York on June 10, 1814, where his mother had gone to recuperate, while Buffalo was being rebuilt af ...

'' on 20 November 1884. She was carrying lumber from Manistique, Michigan to

Buffalo, New York Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from South ...

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{{authority control Islands of Charlevoix County, Michigan Islands of Lake Michigan in Michigan Uninhabited islands of Michigan