Eliza Island
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Eliza Island is one of the San Juan Islands and is located in the western part of Bellingham Bay in the state of Washington, USA. It lies just east of the southern part of Lummi Island, in Whatcom County. Eliza Island has a land area of 0.571 km² (0.2205 sq mi, or 141.1 acres). There was a population of ten persons as of the 2000 census.
The island was named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838-1842. One of the few names given by Wilkes that does not honor either members of his crew or American naval officers, Eliza refers to Francisco de Eliza, the Spanish commander of a 1791 expedition to the Pacific Northwest.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Phillips, James W. (1971). Washington State Place Names. University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-95158-3.
The south end of Eliza island is home to commercial and rec rational crabbing in the Puget sound
[edit] External links
- Eliza Island: Blocks 1000 thru 1011, Census Tract 109, Whatcom County, Washington United States Census Bureau
- Eliza Island is at coordinates Coordinates:
