Stuart Island (Wash.)
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Name (Latin)
Stuart Island (Wash.)
Other forms of name
Qunnis (Wash.)
Stuart's Island (Wash.)
Coordinates
-123.205 -123.205 48.6736 48.6736 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Islands Washington (State)
See Also From tracing place name
San Juan Islands (Wash.)
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q7626693
Library of congress:
sh 88001760
Sources of Information
- NUCMC data from Univ. of Wash. Libr. for Lofgren, S. Papers, 1932-1935.
- Rand McNally.
- Wash. State Place Names.
- Meany, E.S. Origin of Wash. Geo. Names.
- NGS atlas.
- BGN.
- Wash. place names data base, via WWW, Oct. 29, 2002(Stuart Island (T.37N;R.4W) - Stuart Island is in Haro Strait three miles northwest of San Juan Island in northwest San Juan County. In 1791, this island was included with Waldron and several others in the area as Islas de Moraleja when named by Lieut. Juan Francisco de Eliza. In 1841, it was named Stuart's Island by Cmdr. Wilkes for Frederick D. Stuart, captain's clerk on the Peacock. An alternate version of the naming is that Capt. Richards, RN, placed it on British admiralty charts in 1858 to honor Capt. Charles Edward Stuart of Hudson's Bay Company, who traded in the area between 1853 and 1863. The Lummi Indian name was Qunnis, meaning whale.)
- Columbia gaz. of N. Amer., via WWW, Oct. 29, 2002(in entry for San Juan Islands: San Juan Islands, archipelago of 172 isls. constituting San Juan Co., NW Wash., E of Vancouver Isl. The 3 main isls. are San Juan, Orcas, and Lopez. Other important isls. include Shaw (center); Blakely and Decatur (E); Waldron, Stuart, and Spieden (N))
Wikipedia description:
Stuart Island is one of the San Juan Islands, north of San Juan Island and west of Waldron Island in the U.S. state of Washington. The 7.462-square-kilometer (2.881 sq mi) island is home to two communities of full and part-time residents, a state park, a one-room schoolhouse, and two airstrips.
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