Pilot Island
Pilot Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the Town of Washington, in Door County, Wisconsin; it is part of Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge. An abandoned lighthouse, the Pilot Island Light, rests on the island, and three shipwrecks rest in the Pilot Island NW Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Door County, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Also known as: “Porte des Morts Island”
Photo: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Pilot Island Light and Plum Island.
Pilot Island Light
Lighthouse
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The Pilot Island Light is a lighthouse located near Gills Rock, on Pilot Island at the east end of Death's Door passage, in Door County, Wisconsin. The building's design is similar to Pottawatomie Light on Rock Island, but is made of brick instead of stone.
Plum Island
Island
Plum Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the southern part of the town of Washington in Door County, off the tip of the Door Peninsula in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Plum Island is situated 2½ miles northwest of Pilot Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northport and Gills Rock.
Northport
Hamlet
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Northport is an unincorporated community in the town of Liberty Grove in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. It is the northern terminus of WIS 42 and location of the peninsula-side ferry dock of the Washington Island Ferry. Northport is situated 3 miles west of Pilot Island.
Gills Rock
Hamlet
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Gills Rock is an unincorporated community located on Highway 42 at the northern tip of the Door Peninsula in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. It is within the town of Liberty Grove and was formerly known as Hedgehog Harbor. Gills Rock is situated 5 miles west of Pilot Island.
Detroit Harbor
Village
Detroit Harbor is an unincorporated community located in the Town of Washington Island on Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin. The Washington Island Ferry runs scheduled passenger service to Northport from Detroit Harbor. Detroit Harbor is situated 5 miles north of Pilot Island.
Pilot Island
- Categories: lake island, locality, and landform
- Location: Door County, Northeast Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
45.28463° or 45° 17′ 5″ northLongitude
-86.91939° or 86° 55′ 10″ westElevation
581 feet (177 metres)Open location code
86QM73MJ+V6OpenStreetMap ID
way 157587975OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Pilot Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pilot Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Wisconsin)”
- Cebuano: “Pilot Island”
- French: “île Pilot”
- French: “Île Pilot”
- German: “Pilot Island”
- Japanese: “パイロット島”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pilot Island”. Photo: Paulwehr, CC BY-SA 4.0.