Pine Island (Ontario)

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Pine Island is an island in northern Ontario, Canada with a mix of year-round and seasonal (cottage) residents. Some of them live near the island; and some of those neighbors live on other smaller islands nearby. During the night, a nearby lighthouse blinks with an interval of approximately 3 seconds. This island is geographically close to St. Joseph Island.

A massload of boaters fish in the district around Pine Island. This island is also geographically close to the International border of the USA. This island has mostly dirt roads and the nearest major highway to this island is Highway 17.

[edit] Natural defects of area

Relatively low volume sound can travel far, even a medium-amplitude noise can travel from Pine Island to St. Joseph Island.

Mosquitos breed heavily on this and neighboring islands.