World / USA / Texas / Hudson Bend, 2 km from center Coordinates: 30°26'17"N   97°55'18"W

Starnes Island


Starnes Island was simply a hill in Travis County until the early part of the 1940s when Mansfield Dam was built on the Colorado River
creating Lake Travis. It is located in the Sandy Creek arm of the lake. The island is also know to some as Rattlesnake or Snake Island.
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18 months ago DJ Mixerr   +2
This is a bump.
16 months ago BarthArglebargle   +2
In the 1970s, this was known as "Monkey Island". Some guy with a pet chimpanzee took the thing to the lake one day. It got out of the boat when they were at this island and was immediately untrackble in the brush. They never found the monkey.
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