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Basic island data Location: Anacostia River, District of Columbia, US Coordinates: 38.8923° N, 76.9661° W Area: c. 7
acres / 3 hectares Population: uninhabited Alternate names: – 1776 Island – Seventeen
Seventy-Six Island SOURCES: – Coordinates: Trails.com
mapping, viewed August 2009. – Area:
WorldIslandInfo.com measurements from US Geological Survey topographic
mapping. – Names:
“Washington, D.C. Street and Visitor’s Guide” map, American Automobile
Association, 1996. – Ownership: “Update
on the Anacostia Park Wetlands Management Plan with Resident Canada Goose
Management Strategies,” National Park Service, 2008. – History:
construction -- Lena H. Sun, “D.C. on the Verge of Gaining Two Islands,” Washington Post, July 17, 1996, B5;
National Children’s Island -- ““Children's Island First Amended and Restated
Lease and Grant of Easement Emergency Approval Resolution of 1997,
PR-12-434,” DCWatch.com,
September 30, 1997, Lena H. Sun, “D.C. on the Verge of Gaining Two Islands,” Washington Post, July 17, 1996, B1. |
Heritage Island Heritage Island is a seven-acre island in
the Anacostia River, in eastern Washington DC, in the Kingman Lake portion of
the river east of Kingman
Island. It is the fifth-largest
island in the District of Columbia. The island is largely wooded and flat. It
is owned by the District of Columbia and used as parkland, and is circled by
a walking trail. Footbridges provide
access to the mainland to the west, and to Kingman Island to the east. The island and its neighbors were constructed
from dredged material in 1916. In 1996, the island was transferred, along
with southern Kingman Island, to the District of Columbia from the National
Park Service as part of the “National Children’s Island” project, which did
not go forward. Trash cleanup and environmental restoration
were carried out on the island in the 2000s. |
Natural scene on
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