Canoe Island is a 47-acre (19-hectare) island located in the center of the San Juan Islands, an archipelago in the U.S. state of Washington. The island...
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Canoe Island can refer to: Canoe Island (Nova Scotia) Canoe Island (Ontario) Canoe Island (Washington) This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct...
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A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing...
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Fox Island is an island and census-designated place (CDP) in Pierce County, Washington, United States, in Puget Sound. It is located approximately 5 miles...
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This is a list of selected islands that are part of Washington state. Islands portal Pacific Northwest portal "Washington State Office of Financial Management...
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Deception Pass Bridge (redirect from Canoe Pass Bridge)
bridges on Washington State Route 20 connecting Whidbey Island in Island County, to Fidalgo Island in Skagit County, in the U.S. state of Washington. It was...
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King County, Washington, United States. It covers an island alternately called Vashon Island or Vashon–Maury Island, the largest island in Puget Sound...
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Buck Island Cactus Islands Canoe Island Castle Island Cayou Island (aka Rum Island) Cemetery Island Center Island (20) Charles Island Clark Island * Cliff...
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Hayden Island is an island in the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The wide main channel of the Columbia (and the Washington–Oregon...
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Sentinelese (redirect from People of North Sentinel Island)
metal. Canoes are used for lagoon-fishing, but long poles rather than paddles or oars propel them. They seldom use the canoes for cross-island navigation...
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Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, c. 1738 – February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee red (or war) chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors...
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the Overmountain region of the American frontier. In mid-July, Dragging Canoe, Oconostota , and The Raven led a surprise attack on the Overmountain settlements...
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Connecticut, Georgia and Ohio Vision Tech Camps, California Canoe Island French Camp, Canoe Island, Washington Concordia Language Villages, Minnesota Al-Wāḥa, Arabic...
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Shaw Island is the smallest of the four San Juan Islands served by the Washington State Ferries. The island has a land area of 19.952 square kilometers...
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The Squaxin Island Tribe is a federally recognized tribe located in Mason County, Washington. They are descended from several Southern Coast Salish peoples...
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Junkanoo (redirect from John Canoe dance)
enslavers". The Washington Post. Bilby, Kenneth M. (2010-01-01). "Surviving Secularization: Masking the Spirit in the Jankunu (John Canoe) Festivals of...
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A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon. Monoxylon (μονόξυλον)...
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Journey is a gathering of canoe cultures from Indigenous Nations from the coasts of Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon and Washington. It first took place in...
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Polynesian navigation (redirect from Polynesian canoe)
with nearly every island within the vast Polynesian Triangle, using outrigger canoes or double-hulled canoes. The double-hulled canoes were two large hulls...
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The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA) comprises 1,090,000 acres (440,000 ha) of pristine forests, glacial lakes, and streams in the...
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Tillicum (redirect from Tillicum, Washington)
Camrose Tillicum Beach, a neighborhood on Camano Island, Washington, USA Tilikum (boat), a dug-out canoe used in Jack Voss and Norman Luxton's voyage around...
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Union Bay (Seattle) (redirect from Broken Island (Washington state))
beginning of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, which runs through Seattle and connects Lake Washington to Puget Sound. Broken Island is adjacent to Husky...
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Cape Flattery (redirect from Cape Flattery, Washington)
Washington was the hometown of the fictional characters Ma and Pa Kettle from the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movie series. The children's novel Ghost Canoe (1998)...
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The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn...
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Polynesia (redirect from South Sea island)
Lowell Don (1 August 1955). "Island Migrations (2): Birds and Sea Currents Aided Canoe Navigators". XXVI(1) Pacific Islands Monthly. Retrieved 1 October...
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is thought to have been a cohabitational contact zone between different canoe-faring indigenous peoples living north and south of it. Anthropologist John...
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Teraina (redirect from Washington Island (Kiribati))
known as Washington Island – these two names are constitutional) is a coral atoll in the central Pacific Ocean and part of the Northern Line Islands which...
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Makah (redirect from Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, Washington)
Cedar roots were used in basket making. Whole trees were carved out to make canoes to hunt seals, gray whales and humpback whales. Makah acquired much of their...
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below. The expanding island of ballast was largely enclosed by the OIC's Ocean and City Docks, and became accessible only by canoe, with visitors paddling...
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Puyallup people (category Native American tribes in Washington (state))
historically the canoe, of which there are six types: the war canoe, the freight canoe, the fishing canoe, river canoe (also called a shovel-nose canoe), the one-man...
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