Features Flashcards
Stuart Island:
two prominent hills 640 feet high near the middle
Shaw Island:
village served by the ferry; store, warehouse, and a float landing with berths for about 25 craft.
Spieden Island:
2.5 miles long in an E direction with an extreme width of 0.5 mile. The S side of the island has few trees, but the N face is well wooded
San Juan Island:
13 miles long, rugged, and partly wooded.
Mount Dallas:
highest of several hills on San Juan island, rises abruptly from the middle of the W side to 1,036 feet.
Kellett Bluff:
steep and rocky and prominent from either S or N; marked by a light
Roche Harbor:
The quarry tunnels from the old lime works and the ruins of the old mill are still prominent.
North Bay:
Gravel pits on the NW shore.
Friday Harbor:
town on the W shore of the cove.
University of Washington marine laboratory:
In Friday Harbor across from N end of Brown Island. Concrete buildings are prominent.
Waldron Island:
Irregular in shape and 3 miles long; highest point, 612 feet, is near Point Disney, its S end. Steep and rocky on east - sandy beaches N and W.
Orcas Island:
wooded and mountainous. Turtleback Mountain (Turtle Back Range) and Orcas Knob: conical, and bare on the summit, in the W part of the island, are prominent and easily recognized.
Lopez Island
SSE most
Lopez: small village at the entrance to Fisherman Bay.
Lopez Hill: 488 feet high, is near the S midsection of Lopez island.
Richardson: four fuel tanks are prominent from seaward with wharf in ruins below
Blakely Island:
At N end, bordering on Peavine Pass, is a small-craft basin and channel.
James Island
East of Decatur Hd. Btw the two is a deep but narrow passage.
2 prominent hills
Lummi Island:
wooded and about 8 miles long; the N part is low, but in the S part Lummi Peak attains an elevation of over 1,600 feet
Sinclair Island
wooded and comparatively low in places.
Cypress Island:
1,530 feet high, steep on the lower slopes and gently rounding at the top
Belle Rock Sector Light:
½ NM NE of Bird Rocks, bare at low water and marked by light
Bird Rocks:
consisting of three rocks close together, are near the middle of Rosario Strait, about 2 miles WNW of Burrows Island Light. The southernmost and largest is 37 feet high.
Guemes Island:
Yellow Bluff SW side
Fidalgo Island
Ship Harbor: Ferry terminal
Mt Erie 1270 ft, radio towers
Flounder Bay: a well-sheltered basin; site of a large marina.
Burrows Island Light:
white square tower on a building at the W end of the island; a fog signal is at the station.
Williamson Rocks:
a group of small, grass-covered islets and rocks, are 0.5 mile S of Allan Island and are marked on the S side by a lighted gong buoy.
Mount Constitution:
2454 ft, marked by a stone lookout tower and a lighted radio tower.
President Channel
between Waldron and Orcas Islands, is about 5 miles long. Depths are generally great, and the passage is free of dangers.
Upright Head:
narrow peninsula on Lopez I, 260 feet. A ferry slip is in the small cove at the tip of this peninsula.
Shannon Point
the south point at the west entrance of Guemes Channel
low and rounding and marked by a light and a mariner-radio-activated sound signal, 81A.
shoal extends to the northwest from the point.
Strawberry I
small low and wooded
Clark Pt
steep bluff
shoal extends 300yds
Lydia Shoal
covered 4 fathoms, marked by gong buoy
