St. Martin Island

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For the Caribbean island, see Saint Martin.

For other uses, see St. Martin (disambiguation).

St. Martin Island is located off the Garden Peninsula in Delta County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the southernmost island in Michigan that is part of a line a islands at the mouth of the bay of Green Bay and is part of the Niagara Escarpment^[1]^[2].

The island is located at 45°29′52″N 86°46′13″W / 45.49778, -86.77028^[3]. Gravelly Island, Gull Island, and Little Gull Island are approximately two miles to the north and east across the St. Martin Island Passage. Rock Island in Wisconsin is approximately six miles south-southwest, across the Rock Island Passage

Robert W. Warner of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was the first pilot to land on St. Martin Island back in the early 50's. To this day, no one else has ventured out to the island by air.

The light tower, constructed in 1905, is the only example of a pure exoskeletal tower on the Great Lakes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1984^[4].

Note: "St. Martin Island" may also refer to islands in Mackinac County, Michigan. There is the St. Martin Island at 45°57′42″N 84°34′19″W / 45.96167, -84.57194^[5], which along with Little Saint Martin Island at 45°56′47″N 84°33′53″W / 45.94639, -84.56472^[6] and Big Saint Martin Island at 45°58′06″N 84°37′41″W / 45.96833, -84.62806^[7] form the St. Martin Islands group in the St. Martin Bay.

[edit] Notes

^ St. Martin Island Lighthouse, Seeing the Light
^ Michigan Lighthouses, Inventory of Historic Light Stations, National Park Service
^ USGS GNIS: Saint Martin Island (Delta County)
^ Saint Martin Island Light Station, Michigan Historic Sites Online
^ USGS GNIS: Saint Martin Island (Mackinac County)
^ USGS GNIS: Little Saint Martin Island (Mackinac County)
^ USGS GNIS: Big Saint Martin Island (Mackinac County)

[edit] Bibliography and further reading

Bibliography on Michigan lighthouses.
Hyde, Charles K., and Ann and John Mahan. The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. ISBN 0814325548 ISBN 9780814325544.
Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
Penrod, John, Lighthouses of Michigan, (Berrien Center, Michigan: Penrod/Hiawatha, 1998) ISBN 9780942618785 ISBN 9781893624238.
Penrose, Laurie and Bill, A Traveler’s Guide to 116 Michigan Lighthouses (Petoskey, Michigan: Friede Publications, 1999). ISBN 0923756035 ISBN 9780923756031
Pepper, Terry. Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes.
Putnam, George R., Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933).
Wagner, John L.. Beacons Shining in the Night: The Lighthouses of Michigan. Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.
Wagner, John L., Michigan Lighthouses: An Aerial Photographic Perspective, (East Lansing, Michigan: John L. Wagner, 1998) ISBN 1880311011 ISBN 9781880311011.
Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1550463993.