Description

2.9 acres; in the San Juan Islands, just off the NE coast of San Juan Island, 5.5 mi. NNW of Friday Harbor

History

Named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1841, reportedly for an American Naval hero of the War of 1812. A proposal to change the island's name to Avalon Island was rejected by the BGN in 2012.

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