The Island
The Island rises to 1,732 m in Idaho. Bald Mountain stands 1,966 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Wickahoney Post Office and Stage Station, a historic site 3.9 miles away. Owyhee Uplands Back Country Byway passes 22 miles off. 33 named places lie within 25 miles, 25 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Idaho, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49082534, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,732 m
How to reach it
- 22.4 mi off the Owyhee Uplands Back Country Byway
33 named places within 25 miles
- Wild Horse Table: 6.1 mi
- Poison Butte: 7.0 mi
- Turner Table: 7.5 mi
- Turner Butte: 8.0 mi
- Gedney Butte: 8.4 mi
- Black Rocks: 19.5 mi
- Windy Point: 20.7 mi
- City of Rocks: 24.2 mi
- Aivuhi Paatetsopai’i: 11.0 mi
- Otter Spring: 22.7 mi
- Wickahoney Post Office and Stage Station: 3.9 mi
- Comical Turn: 7.4 mi
- Hot Springs Bench: 22.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Mountain | NW 317° | 1,966 m | 22.0 mi |
| Crab Spring Butte | WNW 293° | 1,915 m | 11.9 mi |
| Otter Buttes | S 175° | 1,914 m | 23.6 mi |
| Big Springs Butte | W 270° | 1,869 m | 20.7 mi |
| Turner Butte | SW 214° | 1,864 m | 8.0 mi |
| Wild Horse Table | S 180° | 1,853 m | 6.1 mi |
| Turner Table | SW 234° | 1,830 m | 7.5 mi |
| Sugarloaf | NNW 330° | 1,812 m | 9.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:48 | 19:20 | 19:57 |
| June solstice | 06:08 | 20:43 | 21:26 |
| September equinox | 07:32 | 19:06 | 19:43 |
| December solstice | 08:11 | 16:29 | 17:15 |
Local time (America/Boise).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 398234 — The Island, Owyhee County, Idaho.
OpenStreetMap element node/358663894
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