Island Resort. The community located on Guemes Island is generally referred to as "Guemes". Guemes Island is within the historical territory of the Samish...
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The Guemes Island ferry, the M/V Guemes, carries passengers and vehicles across Guemes Channel between Anacortes, Washington and Guemes Island. The ferry...
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Guemes or Güemes may refer to: De Güemes, a Spanish surname Guemes Island, a small island in western Skagit County, Washington state, USA General Güemes...
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Juan Islands and Guemes Island. Fidalgo Island has a land area of 106.684 km² (41.19 sq mi). There are at least eight major lakes on Fidalgo Island which...
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separated from Blakely Island to the west by Rosario Strait and from Guemes Island to the east by Bellingham Channel. The island has a land area of 5,500...
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places for the Viceroy, including Orcas Island (short for "Horcasitas") and Guemes Island. San Juan Island's first European discoverer was Gonzalo López...
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Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, and San Juan Island. There is also a Skagit County-operated ferry that serves Guemes Island, a residential island located...
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Allan Island Burrows Island Cascade Mountains Cypress Island Fir Island Fidalgo Island Guemes Island Hart Island Hope Island Kiket Island Pass Island Samish...
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across Samish Bay from mainland Skagit County, between Guemes Island and Lummi Island. Vendovi Island has a land area of 220.24 acres (89.13 ha) and a population...
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the San Juan Islands and the mainland. Fidalgo Island and Guemes Island lie to the west of Padilla Bay. Guemes Channel, between the islands, connects Padilla...
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studied for a time under Henry Moore in England. He lived and made art on Guemes Island from 1955 to the end of his life in 2021. His work contains much nature...
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This is a list of islands of the United States, as ordered by area. It includes most islands with an area greater than 20 square miles (approximately 52...
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Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (Spanish, with variant name: Juan Vicente de Güemes Pacheco de Padilla y...
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operated by the state of Washington. The Guemes Island ferry from Anacortes 5 minutes north to Guemes Island is operated by Skagit County, Washington...
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the couple made their home on Waldron Island. She had four children, whom she taught for one year on Guemes Island's one-room schoolhouse. Burn separated...
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Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-95158-3. "Sinclair Island - Sinclair Island is located one mile north of Guemes Island at the convergence of Rosario and Georgia...
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Galiano called it "Guemes" in his map published in 1802, which may be the proper spelling. The name "Guemes" honors Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas...
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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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Martín Miguel de Güemes International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de Salta "Martín Miguel de Güemes") (IATA: SLA, ICAO: SASA) is located...
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George Vancouver for Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, then viceroy of New Spain (Mexico). The island's population was 13,950 as of the 2000...
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The name "Orcas" is a shortened form of Horcasitas, from Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo, the Viceroy of...
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Swinomish, but many Samish chose to remain on islands in their ancestral areas, among them Fidalgo, Guemes and the San Juans. The Samish Nation was mistakenly...
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Puget Sound (category Bodies of water of Island County, Washington)
(280 m). The depth of the main basin, between the southern tip of Whidbey Island and Tacoma, is approximately 600 feet (180 m). In 2009, the term Salish...
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fished in the islands and channels off the coast of Skagit County, Washington. The Samish had villages on Samish, Guemes, and Fidalgo Islands, and fished...
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y Archipiélago de San Juan to honor his patron sponsor, Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo. One of the officers...
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three residents tried to escape from the school and reached Guemes Island. They left the island by ferry. In a 1990 kidnap and assault case, two school residents...
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Bay, southeast of Cypress Island and to the west of Bellingham Channel (which separates Cypress Island from Guemes Island). The pen was submerged from...
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Nuevo León, Mexico) – now Bowen Island Banks Island, Queensland, Australia – Joseph Banks – now Moa Island Bedloe's Island, New York, United States – Isaack...
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Guemes Island Ferry from 1988-2022. His 34 years of deckhand service aboard the ferry is the longest period of service in the history of the Guemes Island...
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he began a faculty position at UCLA in 1996. He retired in 2018 to Guemes Island in Washington State with his wife Klaudia Maria Englund and was active...
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