The name Washington Island refers to:
- Washington Island (Wisconsin), the largest of the islands that make up the Town of Washington in Door County, Wisconsin
- Washington Island (Michigan) in Keweenaw County, Michigan
- Washington Island (Minnesota) in Lake County, Minnesota
- Washington Island (New York) in Jefferson County, New York
- Teraina, also known as Washington Island, Kiribati
- Washington Islands Wilderness in Washington state
- An 18th century name for Ua Huka, later extended as the "Washington Islands" to include all of the northern Marquesas Islands
Famous quotes containing the words washington and/or island:
“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)