Tar Island
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| Waters | Saint Lawrence River | |
| Geographical location | 44 ° 23 ′ N , 75 ° 55 ′ W | |
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| surface | 106 km² | |
Tar Island is an island near the town of Rockport in the Canadian waters of the St. Lawrence River and part of the Thousand Islands , a freshwater archipelago. Tar Island is around 60 meters from the north bank of the river. It is 106 hectares and has a circumference of 8.0 kilometers.
On a small unnamed island nearby on the northeastern tip of the island of Tar is an automatic lighthouse that directs traffic to the Canadian central channel of the St. Lawrence.
A large deposit of black tourmaline is located southeast of the island, mixed with white quartz, cream-colored feldspar and green-yellow mica. The endangered American eel lives in the waters around Tar Island .
history
Tar Island was a settlement of the Iroquois . According to reports by 18th-century French captain Pierre Pouchot , a narrow gap between the island and the Canadian coast was previously referred to as Petit Detroit by the Iroquois and used to baptize newcomers to the river.
Well-known Tar Island residents included entomologist William Steel Creighton , industrialist Robert Hewitt , farmer Ralph Hodge (described in Thompson's Soul of the River), and video game designer Brian Reynolds .
Agriculture, including maize production, has ceased to exist on Tar Island since 1990. Today the land is mainly used for summer houses.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Keats, John (1987). Of time and an island. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. P. 184. ISBN 978-0-8156-0211-8 .
- ↑ Bigsby, JJ (Feb. 1829). "Dr. Bigsby's Sketch of the Topographical and Geology of Lake Ontario". The Philosophical Magazine. No. 5