Turtle Island
Encyclopedia

Places

  • Turtle Island, Queensland (disambiguation), the name of four islands in Queensland, Australia
  • Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi
    Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi
    Turtle Islands, also known as Turtle Isles, is a 5th class municipality composed of a remote group of seven islands in the province of Tawi-Tawi in the Southern Philippines.-Location:...

    , a group of islands in the Southern Philippines
  • Turtle Islands National Park
    Turtle Islands National Park
    Turtle Islands National Park is located within the Turtle Islands, which lie in the Sulu Sea some 40 kilometers north of Sandakan in Sabah, east Malaysia. It consists of 3 islands - Selingaan, Bakkungan Kechil and Gulisaan , including the surrounding coral reefs and ocean...

    , a collective name for three islands in Sabah, Malaysia
  • Turtle Island, Bermuda
    Turtle Island, Bermuda
    Turtle Island is an island of Bermuda....

  • Another name for Gueishan Island
    Gueishan Island
    Guishan Island or Steep Island or Turtle Island , also known as Kueishan Island, is an island in the Pacific Ocean currently administered by Yilan County, Taiwan and located east of port of Gengfang Fishery Harbor. The island is the top of an andesite stratovolcano which rises from the seafloor...

    , an island off the northeast coast of Taiwan
  • Another name for Nanuya Levu
    Nanuya Levu
    Nanuya Levu is a privately owned island of the Yasawa Group in Fiji and the site of the Turtle Island Resort, a sustainable luxury resort and also a locale for the romance adventure film The Blue Lagoon ....

    , a privately owned island of the Yasawa Group in Fiji
  • Another name for Vatoa
    Vatoa
    Vatoa is an outlier of Fiji's Lau Group.Vatoa was the only island of present-day Fiji visited by James Cook. The island was sighted on 2 July 1774...

    , in the Lau Group in Fiji
  • Another name for Tortuga, an island in Haiti
  • Another name for Ko Tao
    Ko Tao
    Ko Tao is an island in Thailand located near the western shore of the Gulf of Thailand. It covers an area of about 21 km². Administratively it forms a tambon within the district Ko Pha Ngan of Surat Thani Province. As of 2006 its official population is 1382...

    , a island in Thailand
  • Turtle Island (Lake Erie)
    Turtle Island (Lake Erie)
    __NOEDITSECTION__Turtle Island is a remote island in the western portion of Lake Erie in the United States. The island has unique political status, as its ownership is divided between the U.S. states of Michigan and Ohio, even though the island has no residents or use. The island is located...

    , near Toledo, Ohio, USA
  • Turtle Island (North America)
    Turtle Island (North America)
    Turtle Island is a term used by several Northeastern Woodland Native American tribes, especially the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy, for the continent of North America.-Iroquois:...

    , an ostensibly Native American term for the North American continent

Literature

  • Turtle Island (book), a 1974 book of poetry by Gary Snyder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
  • Turtle Island: Tales of the Algonquian Nations, a 1999 children's book by Jane Louise Curry
    Jane Louise Curry
    Jane Louise Curry, born September 24, 1932 in East Liverpool, Ohio, is a prolific writer of adventure, fantasy, mystery, time travel, and American Indian tales for older children and teenagers...


Music

  • Turtle Island (album), the 1989 debut solo album by Paul Hyde of the Payola$
  • "Turtle Island", a track from Mike Oldfield's Tr3s Lunas album
  • "Turtle Island", a track from Beach House's 2008 Devotion
    Devotion (Beach House album)
    Devotion is the second full-length record by Baltimore dream pop duo Beach House. The record was released on February 26, 2008 and debuted at #195 on the Billboard Chart. The first single to be released was "Gila"....

    album
  • Turtle Island Quartet
    Turtle Island Quartet
    The Turtle Island Quartet is a San Francisco Bay Area based jazz string quartet formed in 1985 and still actively touring worldwide and recording...

    , modern-day jazz string quartet

Other uses

  • Turtle Island Foods
    Turtle Island Foods
    Turtle Island Foods is the company which produces Tofurky, a popular vegetarian and vegan alternative to turkey, as well other meatless products...

    , makers of the Tofurky brand of soy products
  • Turtle Island News
    Turtle Island News
    Turtle Island News is a weekly community newspaper, published in Ohsweken, Ontario, Canada. It is North America's leading native weekly newspaper, the recipient of numerous awards from the international Native American Journalists Association for being number one in its field. The Turtle Island...

    , Canadian Native People's newspaper
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