Wood Island

Wood Island may refer to:

  • Wood Island, an alternate name for Yerba Buena Island in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California, in the United States.
  • Wood Island Light, a lighthouse on Wood Island in Saco Bay, Maine, USA.
  • Wood Island Station, a station on Boston, Massachusetts' MBTA subway system on the Blue Line named after a former park of the same name at that location.
  • Wood Islands, a community in Queens County, Prince Edward Island on the Northumberland Strait in Canada.
  • Wood Island, an island in the South Shetland Islands
  • Wood Island, County Down, is a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.

Famous quotes containing the words wood and/or island:

    “The wood for a temple does not come from a single tree.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “They all came, some wore sentiments
    Emblazoned on T-shirts, proclaiming the lateness
    Of the hour, and indeed the sun slanted its rays
    Through branches of Norfolk Island pine as though
    Politely clearing its throat....”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)