Puffin Island is the name of several islands in a number of countries. In most cases the island has been so named because it has - or used to have - a colony of puffins.
Puffin Islands include:
- Canada
- Puffin Island (Baccalieu Tickle), Newfoundland and Labrador
- Puffin Island (Greenspond), Newfoundland and Labrador
- Iceland
- Puffin Island, Reykjavík
- Ireland
- Puffin Island (County Kerry)
- United Kingdom
- Puffin Island (Anglesey), Wales
- Lundy in the Bristol Channel may also be included, as its name means "Puffin Island" in Norse
- United States
- Puffin Island (Alaska)
- Puffin Island (Maine)
- Puffin Island (Washington)
Famous quotes containing the word island:
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)