Midwest
Michigan
Delta

Poverty Island

Poverty Island is a 186 acre uninhabited island in northern . It is one of an archipelago of islands across the entrance to and commonly called the Potawatomi Islands, which are an outcropping of the Niagara Escarpment.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Delta County, Michigan, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Gull Island”

Poverty Island

Latitude
45.52709° or 45° 31′ 38″ north
Longitude
-86.66463° or 86° 39′ 53″ west
Elevation
617 feet (188 metres)
Open location code
86QMG8GP+R4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 3854356
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
5006386
Wiki­data ID
Q7235830
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Japanese—“Poverty Island” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Poverty Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Michigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Poverty Island”
  • Dutch: “Poverty Island”
  • French: “île de la Pauvreté”
  • French: “Île de la Pauvreté”
  • Japanese: “ポヴァーティ島”

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