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The
Lake Erie Islands Directory
shortcut:
www.lakeerieislands.us
or www.erieislands.us
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Jump to the following section:
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And take a look at
"How Many Islands
are There in Lake Erie?" (PDF, 65K),
which contains a quick overview of the natural and
artificial islands
in Lake
Erie.
Welcome
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Welcome to The Lake Erie Islands Directory page.
Here, we provide links to all the sites for the islands, plus links to pictures
for those islands without sites. In addition, if you click on the Site Map Page 1
and Site Map Page 2 links on the left
edge of the page, you will find even more links to island information. And there
is a separate Lake Erie
Islands - Live News Feed page.
For tourist information on the
area, one good link to start with is the
Ottawa County Visitor's
Bureau - Lake Erie Islands Region site.
In
addition to the information here, there are numerous historical biographies of
19th
Century Lake Erie Islanders listed separately. Also see our new
Ottawa County Directory.
We also have a page of
Lake Erie Islands Humor.
Last but not least, we have a directory of other Great
Lakes islands and "northern" islands sites, so take a look.
Lake Erie Island Sites and Pictures
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The term "Lake Erie Islands" usually refers just to the Bass Islands
(North, Middle and South) and the
smaller islands near them, together sometimes called the Bass Islands
Archipelago.
But the following list includes all islands normally considered to be in Lake
Erie. Of all the Ohio islands below, only Gard Island, Mohawk Island, Turtle Island, Presque Isle and West
Sister Island, plus the three Michigan islands listed without images, are more than ten miles from one of the Bass Islands. Also,
Johnson Island is really in Sandusky Bay and not in Lake Erie, but is normally
included in a list of the Lake Erie Islands.
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Aerial Views
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| Antique
Maps of the Lake Erie Islands
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| Ballast
Island (Ohio)
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Bar Harbor Island (Ohio)
- no information available |
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Buckeye
Island (Ohio) ~ 1922, now just a reef visible above the water |
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Catawba
Island (Ohio) - now
permanently connected to the mainland, but originally separated by the Portage
River
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Cedar Point (Ohio) - There are historical references to Cedar Point having
been an island as opposed to just a peninsula as it is today.
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Sister Island (Ontario)
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Ferry
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Gard Island (Michigan, near
Toledo, OH)
owned by the University of Toledo
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| Gibraltar
Island (Ohio)
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| Green
Island (Ohio)
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Gull Island Shoal (Ohio) - Gull Island was a real island 120 years ago, although
just large enough for a small private picnic. The shoal, between Middle
Island and Kelleys Island, is still a popular fishing spot. |
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Gull Island (Ontario) see
Mohawk Island (Ontario)
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Hen Island - & Chickens
(Ontario)
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| Johnson's
Island (Ohio) - really in Sandusky Bay and not Lake Erie proper
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Kelleys
Island (Ohio)
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Lake Erie "Generic"
Information Sites
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Sister Island (Ontario) - No pictures available yet |
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Long Point Island (Ontario) - This was a separate island in the middle
of the nineteenth century, as shown on numerous maps of the period, but is now
connected to the mainland at Long Point, near Port Rowan and Port Dover.
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Ballast Island (Ohio) ~ 1905, now just a reef visible above the water |
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Michigan Islands in Lake Erie -
Gard Island Images are listed above. However, we are missing several islands
listed below. If anyone has pictures or links for those, please send us information.
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Indian Island (there's
actually an aerial picture of Indian Island on the satellite map showing
Gard Island, but until we get a better
picture, we won't list this separately.) |
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Stony Point Island |
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Turtle Island |
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Middle
Bass Island (Ohio)
top shortcut: www.mbi.co or you can just type mbi.co
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Middle
Island (Ontario)
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Middle
Sister Island (Ontario) - for a description click
here.
To read about an attempt to sell the island in 2000, click
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Mohawk Island (Ontario)
(formerly called Gull Island)
There was actually a second Gull
Island in Lake Erie off Lowbanks, Ontario near Port Colborne. This island is
now called Mohawk Island. The Gull Island Lighthouse there was built in 1848
and decommissioned in 1969. The first
lighthouse keeper was Capt. John Burgess. He came from Orkney, Scotland in
1835.
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Mouse
Island (Ohio) - a 1913 postcard |
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North
Bass Island (Isle St. George) (Ohio)
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North Harbor Island (Ontario)- Images
from July, 2003. This little island is
northeast of East Sister Island, and therefore not visible from Middle Bass
Island. |
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Pelee Island
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Presque
Isle (Pennsylvania)
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Put-in-Bay / South Bass Island (Ohio)
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shortcut:
www.pib.us or you can just type
pib.us
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Rattlesnake
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Rock Island (Ontario) -
This small island, not much more than a shoal the size of the Chicken Islands,
is about six miles east of Mohawk Island near Port Colborne. No pictures are
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Southeast Shoal Lighthouse This lighthouse sits on an artificial
island built on a shoal. Six miles off Point Pelee, the first permanent light
on the shoal was built in 1927 when a large crib fabricated in Kingsville was
floated out, sunk and filled with rock. Note the helicopter pad on the roof. Before the lighthouse was built, ships
were protected by the Southeastern Shoal Lightship. |
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Starve
Island (Reef) (Ohio) - near the southeastern corner of South Bass Island
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Sugar
Island (Ohio) |
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Turtle
Island (Ohio and Michigan) - formerly called Turkey Island.
The state line goes
through the middle of the island.
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"Vermilion" Weather Buoy - Station 45005 - W ERIE 28NM Northwest of
Cleveland, OH - National Data Buoy Center |
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West
Sister Island (Ohio)
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Nearby
Lake Erie Mainland Sites on the U.S. Side
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Lake Erie Mainland Sites a
Bit Further Away (U.S. Only)
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And Finally, A Few Lake Erie Tourist
Towns and Attractions in Ontario
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Kingsville and Leamington are
the mainland Ontario towns closest to the Lake Erie Islands, and provide
ferry service to/from Pelee Island. The other towns are much further away.
Other
Related
Sites
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Nearby Canals
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Navigable Canals
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Erie Canal. Proposed in 1808
and completed in 1825, the canal links the waters of Lake Erie in the west
to the Hudson River in the east.
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Trent-Severn Waterway - This
240 mile Lake Erie bypass connects Lake Huron with Lake Ontario and offers
the opportunity of a great Lake Erie and Ontario circle tour by boat.
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Welland Canal- 26 miles, 8
locks and 350 vertical feet linking Lake Erie with Lake Ontario. It is one
of the outstanding engineering feats of the 20th century.. Requires 2
persons in boat going down to Lake Ontario but 3 for the upward passage
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Other Historical Canals, with
navigable parts
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Other
Interesting "Northern" Island Sites not in Lake Erie
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Revised:
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