Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later" "Goat Island, Oregon"

Includes ... Goat Island ...

Click image to enlarge Martin Island and Lagoon, Washington, with Goat Island in the background. Water/islands read from foreground to background -- Martin Slough, Martin Island, Lagoon, Martin Island, Columbia River, Goat Island, and finally the Oregon hills. Image taken April 9, 2004. Goat Island ... Goat Island is a small, 1.5-mile-long treed island off the east shore of Deer Island, Oregon, lying between Columbia River Mile (RM) 80 and 81. Directly across from Goat Island on the Washington side is Martin Island. In 1976 the U.S. Board of Geographic Names made "Goat Island" the official name for this island. From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ... Clark, November 5, 1805 ... Clark, March 27, 1806 ... Clark, March 28, 1806 ... Lewis, March 29, 1806 ... We set out early this morning and proceeded along the side of Deer Island [Deer Island, Oregon]; halted at 10 A. M. near its upper point and breakfasted. ...     the upper point of this Island may be esteemed the lower side or commencement of the Columbian valley. Return to Menu

*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003 Sources: U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database, 2006; All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.

/Regions/Places/deer_island.html January 2012