Gore Island

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Originally a separate island, Gore Island has in the last century joined & become part of Montague Island.
fire.biol.wwu.edu/trent/alles/GeologySaltonTrough.pdf
at pg 20

Desc of the island from the late 1800s:
"Gore Island, 2 miles long, north and south, ¾ mile wide, and similar in character to Montague Island, lies 3/4 mile eastward of the southern part of the latter, separated by a channel in which there is at all times over a fathom of water, excepting on a narrow bar 400 yards wide at the junction of the channel with the main channel opposite Philips Point, which is just bare at low-water springs [referring to spring tides]. A mud bank, similar to that south of Montague Island, extends off to the southward and eastward from Gore Island."
From: The West Coasts of Mexico and Central America. Chiefly from surveys by the United States Steamers Narragansett, Tuscarora, Ranger, and Thetis, between 1873 and 1901. At pg 157
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