High Island may refer to:
- High Island, Texas, USA, a community
- High Island (Michigan), USA
- High Island (New York), USA
- High Island, Hong Kong (Leung Shuen Wan, 糧船灣洲), Sai Kung District, New Territories
- High Island (Queensland), Australia
- High Island (Maryland), an island in Maryland, USA
- High Island (Rhode River), an island in Maryland, USA
- High Island in Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia
- High Island, one of the Thimble Islands in Connecticut, USA
- Ardoileán or High Island, Ireland
- East Wallabi Island, usually referred to as "High Island" in the context of the Batavia shipwreck
Famous quotes containing the words high and/or island:
“He was high and mighty. But the kindest creature to his slaves—and the unfortunate results of his bad ways were not sold, had not to jump over ice blocks. They were kept in full view and provided for handsomely in his will. His wife and daughters in the might of their purity and innocence are supposed never to dream of what is as plain before their eyes as the sunlight, and they play their parts of unsuspecting angels to the letter.”
—Anonymous Antebellum Confederate Women. Previously quoted by Mary Boykin Chesnut in Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981)
“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)