Islands
- Alameda Island ("Poplar Grove")
- Alcatraz (from: Alcatraz "pelican")
- Año Nuevo Island ("New Year" Island)
- Boca Chica Key ("Small Mouth" Key)
- Farallon Islands (from: Farallones "High Cliffs")
- Key West (Anglicized from Cayo Hueso: "Bone Cay")
- Key Largo ("Wide Key")
- Perdido Key ("Lost Key")
- Santa Rosa Island, California
- Santa Rosa Island, Florida ("St. Rose" Island)
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Famous quotes containing the word islands:
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“we are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)