Features

Question 1

Stuart Island:

Answer 1

two prominent hills 640 feet high near the middle

Question 2

Shaw Island:

Answer 2

village served by the ferry; store, warehouse, and a float landing with berths for about 25 craft.

Question 3

Spieden Island:

Answer 3

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

Question 4

San Juan Island:

Answer 4

13 miles long, rugged, and partly wooded.

Question 5

Mount Dallas:

Answer 5

highest of several hills on San Juan island, rises abruptly from the middle of the W side to 1,036 feet.

Question 6

Kellett Bluff:

Answer 6

steep and rocky and prominent from either S or N; marked by a light

Question 7

Roche Harbor:

Answer 7

The quarry tunnels from the old lime works and the ruins of the old mill are still prominent.

Question 8

North Bay:

Answer 8

Gravel pits on the NW shore.

Question 9

Friday Harbor:

Answer 9

town on the W shore of the cove.

Question 10

University of Washington marine laboratory:

Answer 10

In Friday Harbor across from N end of Brown Island. Concrete buildings are prominent.

Question 11

Waldron Island:

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Orcas Island:

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Lopez Island

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Blakely Island:

Answer 14

At N end, bordering on Peavine Pass, is a small-craft basin and channel.

Question 15

James Island

Answer 15

East of Decatur Hd. Btw the two is a deep but narrow passage.
2 prominent hills

Question 16

Lummi Island:

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Sinclair Island

Answer 17

wooded and comparatively low in places.

Question 18

Cypress Island:

Answer 18

1,530 feet high, steep on the lower slopes and gently rounding at the top

Question 19

Belle Rock Sector Light:

Answer 19

½ NM NE of Bird Rocks, bare at low water and marked by light

Question 20

Bird Rocks:

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Guemes Island:

Answer 21

Yellow Bluff SW side

Question 22

Fidalgo Island

Answer 22

Ship Harbor: Ferry terminal
Mt Erie 1270 ft, radio towers
Flounder Bay: a well-sheltered basin; site of a large marina.

Question 23

Burrows Island Light:

Answer 23

white square tower on a building at the W end of the island; a fog signal is at the station.

Question 24

Williamson Rocks:

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

Mount Constitution:

Answer 25

2454 ft, marked by a stone lookout tower and a lighted radio tower.

Question 26

President Channel

Answer 26

between Waldron and Orcas Islands, is about 5 miles long. Depths are generally great, and the passage is free of dangers.

Question 27

Upright Head:

Answer 27

narrow peninsula on Lopez I, 260 feet. A ferry slip is in the small cove at the tip of this peninsula.

Question 28

Shannon Point

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

Strawberry I

Answer 29

small low and wooded

Question 30

Clark Pt

Answer 30

steep bluff

shoal extends 300yds

Question 31

Lydia Shoal

Answer 31

covered 4 fathoms, marked by gong buoy