James Island

James Island may refer to:

  • James Island (The Gambia), a World Heritage island in The Gambia
  • James Island (British Columbia), an island in Haro Strait off Sidney, BC near Vancouver Island
  • James Island (Galápagos), another name for Santiago Island (Galápagos)
  • James Island (Maryland), an island in Chesapeake Bay
  • James Island (South Carolina), an island near Charleston, South Carolina
  • James Island (San Juan Islands), one of the San Juan Islands in Washington
  • James Island (Washington), near La Push, Washington
  • James Island (Chile)

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or island:

    “Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
    —Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

    “For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)