Shaw Island
Shaw Island is the smallest of the four San Juan Islands served by the Washington State Ferries, at just under 8 sq mi. It has a year-round population about 200 people, though summertime weekends swell with other residents and the occasional tourist.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: island of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, United States
- Also known as: “Shaw Island, WA” and “Shaw Island, Washington”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blind Island Marine State Park.
Blind Island Marine State Park
Nature reserve
Photo: Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington, Public domain.
Blind Island Marine State Park is a public recreation area consisting of the entirety of Blind Island, an island of less than 3 acres at the entrance to Shaw Island's Blind Bay in San Juan County, Washington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orcas Village.
Orcas Village
Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orcas Village is on the southern tip of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. The village is built around the island's only Washington State Ferries dock, making it the primary entrance to the largest of the San Juan Islands, as well as a pleasant place to wait for the outgoing ferry.
Shaw Island
- Categories: island and unincorporated community in the United States
- Location: San Juan, San Juan Islands, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Shaw Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Shaw Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “illa Shaw”
- Cebuano: “Shaw Island (pulo sa Tinipong Bansa, Washington)”
- Cebuano: “Shaw Island”
- Chinese: “蕭島”
- Dutch: “Shaw Island”
- Esperanto: “Shaw Island”
- French: “Shaw Island”
- Hungarian: “Shaw-sziget”
- Irish: “Shaw Island”
- Japanese: “シャウ島”
- Persian: “شاو، آیلند”
- Persian: “شاو”
- Russian: “Шо”
- Russian: “Шоу”
- Slovenian: “Shaw Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Shaw”
- Volapük: “Shaw Island”
- Welsh: “Shaw Island, Washington”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Shaw Island”. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.