Poverty Island

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Poverty Island is a small island in the U.S. state of Michigan. The island is within Delta County in Lake Michigan and is home to an abandoned lighthouse which is in disrepair. According to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Poverty Island is now a National Wildlife Refuge and is owned by the federal government.^[1][2]

[edit] Other islands in the chain are (from north to south)

• Little Summer Island
• Summer Island
• Poverty Island
• Gull Island
• St. Martin Island
• Rock Island
• Washington Island
• Pilot Island
• Detroit Island
• Plum Island

[edit] External links

• Beacons in the Night, Michigan Lighthouse Chronology, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.

[edit] Notes