What is "smith island"

Smith Island is long and wide, lying west of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory. Surface area .

The discovery of the South Shetland Islands was first reported in 1819 by Capt. William Smith, for whom the island is named. This island was known to both American and British sealers as early as 1820, and the name Smith has been well established in international usage for over 100 years, although in Russian literature it is often referred to as Borodino Island, sometimes marked as Borodino (Smith) Island. The island hosts no research stations or camps, and is seldom visited by scientists or mountaineers. Its interior is entirely occupied by Imeon Range rising to ( Mount Foster). The first detailed topographic mapping of the island was made by the Antarctic Place-names Commission and the Military Topographic Service of the Bulgarian Army and published in 2009 in both English and Bulgarian.

Smith Island may refer to:

• Smith Island, one of the islands in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

• Smith Islands National Park, Queensland
• Smith Island (South Australia)

• Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)

• Smith Island (British Columbia), off the mouth of the Skeena River
• Smith Island is a minor islet in Stuart Lake, British Columbia
• Smith Island (Frobisher Bay, Nunavut)
• Smith Island (Hudson Bay, Nunavut)
• Smith Island, Ontario

• , one of the Izu Islands

• Smith Island (Connecticut)
• Smith Island, in Kankakee River State Park, Illinois
• Smith Island, Maryland
• Smith Island (Montana), an island in the Beaverhead River
• Smith Island (North Carolina), a National Natural Landmark
• Smith Island, Virginia
• Smith Island (Washington)

Smith Island is an island located in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington, about midway between Admiralty Inlet and Lopez Island. It is connected to the smaller Minor Island, to its east, by a low spit that is covered at high tide. The low, grassy islands have a few trees and are an important habitat for seabirds, and the beaches are a resting site for sea lions. The islands are part of the San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge, and are usually closed to the public.

The Smith Island Light was constructed on the island in 1858. Originally, this stood about 200 feet away from the island's western edge. The bluff began to erode, and when the bluff reached the front door in the 1950s, the lighthouse was abandoned. During the 1980s until the spring of 1998, the last part of the broken lighthouse clung precariously to the bluff.

The lighthouse was replaced with an automated navigational light 97 feet (30 meters) high. Minor Island also has a light. The island is also the site of a weather station operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Smith Island was discovered by José María Narváez in 1791, which he called Isla de Bonilla. It received its present name from Hudson's Bay Company traders in the first half of the 19th century.

Travel to these islands requires the largest open-water transit in Washington State. Their nearest neighbor is Whidbey Island, approximately 5.5 miles (8.8 km) distant.

Smith Island is a northern Canadian island in eastern Hudson Bay. It is a part of Qikiqtaaluk Region in the territory of Nunavut, though situated off the western coast of Quebec's Ungava Peninsula.

Smith Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island located in Frobisher Bay, southeast of the capital city of Iqaluit. Other islands in the immediate vicinity include Brigus Island, Brook Island, Culbertson Island, Gay Island, and Precipice Island.

is a volcanic, deserted island located in the Philippine Sea approximately off the coast of Aogashima, near the southern end of the Izu archipelago, Japan.

Smith Island is an island located in Spencer Gulf off the east coast of Jussieu Peninsula on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia approximately south-east of Port Lincoln. It was named by Matthew Flinders in memory of William Smith who was one of the eight crew lost from a cutter that capsized sometime after being launched from the HM Sloop Investigator to search for water on 21 February 1802. Since 2004, the island has been part of the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area.

Smith Island is an island off of and north of the mouth of the Skeena River in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located just south of the City of Prince Rupert. On its southern tip is the former settlement of Oceanic. Tsum Tsadai Inlet is a narrow inlet on the north side of the island, with its opening to the west. Tsum Tsadai Rock is located at the inlet's opening to the sea. Dashken Indian Reserve No. 22 is on the east side of Smith Island, facing De Horsey Island which is to the east.

Marcus Passage is the name of the waters to the south of the island. To the north is Inverness Passage, separating Smith Island from the Tsimpsean Peninsula and named for one of the earliest cannery companies in the area which was located at the mouth of the Skeena. The eastern end of Inverness Passage, to the north of De Horsey Island, which is immediately southeast of Smith Island, and is the opening into it from the mouth of the Skeena, is Eleanor Passage. De Horsey Passage separates De Horsey Island from Smith Island on the latter's east side. Croasdaile Island is to the south of the southern tip of Smith Island.