There is also a Kelleys Island, Ohio

Kelleys Island, Ohio

Kelleys Island is both a village in Erie County, Ohio, United States, and the island which it fully occupies in Lake Erie. Originally known as Island Number 6 and later Cunningham Island, it was renamed in 1840 for brothers Datus and Irad Kelley, who were largely responsible for cultivatating the...

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Kelly's Island is one of three islands in Conception Bay

Conception Bay

Conception Bay is a Canadian bay located on the northeast coast of the island of Newfoundland. The bay indents the Avalon Peninsula with the opening of the bay to the Atlantic Ocean at the northeast. It is bounded by Cape St. Francis in the south and Split Point near Bay de Verde in the north...

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Newfoundland and Labrador

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Canada

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There are no residences on Kelly's Island. The western end is Crown land which was used by local farmers for cattle grazing. The eastern end of the island was granted, in two identical grants, to two Church of England clergymen on December 31, 1899. Presumably in hopes of exploiting iron ore if it turned out that the then operating iron ore mine on nearby Bell Island ran under Kelly's Island. Ultimately, the iron ore deposit on Bell Island was found to run AWAY from Kelly's Island, and so the granted land was never developed.

There is a long reef at the western end of the island, where large blue mussels may be raked or taken by divers. On the eastern end, there is a small cove. Chimney cove as it is called is sufficiently deep for mooring a small skiff, and there is a somewhat steep rock path up to the wooded top of the island, to reach the trees you must however cross the large bog. The north and south sides of the island are cliff sided, and so access to the wooded part of the island must be made either by scaling the hill on the eastern end of the island, or by climbing the gentler slope on the western end. Because of the difficulty in reaching the top of the island, it has never been logged, and there are some small stands of old growth forest

Old growth forest

An old-growth forest is a forest that has attained great age , and thereby exhibits unique ecological features. An old growth forest has also usually reached a climax community...

 to be found in the center of the island. Arctic hares were introduced to the island in the early 1980s, but the population did not prosper. There is a brackish barachois

Barachois

A barachois is a term used in Atlantic Canada and Saint Pierre and Miquelon to describe a coastal lagoon separated from the ocean by a sand or shingle bar...

, or lagoon, at the south-east corner of the island. There are sources of fresh water on the island, the bog runs a waterfall down the cliff with fresh water, which flows into the ocean.