Tenasillahe Island
Tenasillahe Island | ||
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Aerial view of the last kilometers of the Columbia before it flows into the Pacific: (cut off) Puget Island in the foreground , Tenasillahe Island and Welch Island behind it (lower right corner) | ||
Waters | Columbia River | |
Geographical location | 46 ° 14 ′ N , 123 ° 27 ′ W | |
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Tenasillahe Island is a small island in the Columbia River , which at this point forms the border between the US states of Washington and Oregon . The island is assigned to Clatsop County in Oregon. It is located a few kilometers downstream from Puget Island . Despite its small area, the Red Slough and Tenasillahe Slough rivers have their source on the island. A little further down the river is the river island Welch Island .
Lieutenant William Robert Broughton drove past Tenasillahe Island on October 25, 1792 as a member of the George Vancouver Expedition. 1805-1806 the Lewis and Clark expedition reached the area; Lewis and Clark called the island and the neighboring Welsh Island "Marshy Islands". The current name of the island means "small country" ("tenas" = small and "illahe" = land in the language of the Chinook Indians ). In 1914 it was officially written in this way by the US Board of Geographic Names .
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