What is the island that the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific" known as?
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Kauai Kauai or Kauaʻ i ( ; ] ) is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of 562.3 sqmi , it is the fourth largest of these islands and the 21st largest island in the United States. Known also as the "Garden Isle", Kauaʻ i lies 105 mi across the Kauaʻ i Channel, northwest of Oʻ ahu. This island is the site of Waimea Canyon State Park.
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Waimea Canyon State Park Waimea Canyon, also known as the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific", is a large canyon, approximately ten miles (16 km) long and up to 3,000 feet (900 m) deep, located on the western side of Kauaʻ i in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States. Waimea is Hawaiian for "reddish water", a reference to the erosion of the canyon's red soil. The canyon was formed by a deep incision of the Waimea River arising from the extreme rainfall on the island's central peak, Mount Waiʻ aleʻ ale, among the wettest places on earth.
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Grand Canyon The Grand Canyon (Hopi: "Ongtupqa"; Yavapai: "Wi:kaʼi:la" , Navajo: "Tsékooh Hatsoh", Spanish: "Gran Cañón") is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States. The Grand Canyon is 277 mi long, up to 18 mi wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6093 ft ).
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Center Island (Washington) Center Island is one of the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington, United States. It lies off the eastern shore of Lopez Island, between it and Decatur Island. Center Island has a land area of 0.713 km² (0.275 sq mi, or 176.22 acres). The population was officially 49 persons as of the 2000 census.
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San Miguel Island San Miguel Island (Chumash: "Tuqan") is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands, located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean, within Santa Barbara County, California. San Miguel is the sixth-largest of the eight Channel Islands at 9,325 acres , including offshore islands and rocks. Prince Island, 700 m off the northeastern coast, measures 35 acre in area. The island, at its farthest extent, is 8 mi long and 3.7 mi wide.
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Middle Caicos Middle Caicos, also Grand Caicos, is the largest island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. To the west, it is separated from North Caicos by Juniper Hole, and to the east, from East Caicos by Lorimer Creek, both narrow passages that can accommodate only small boats. The island is known for its extensive system of caves and its significant Lucayan Indian archeological sites. The island is connected to North Caicos via a causeway.
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Rivero Island Rivero Island (Spanish "Isla Rivero") is an island in the Chonos Archipelago of Chile.
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Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego—literally "Land of the Fire", formerly "Isla de Xativa" and also known as Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego—is an island near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan. The western portion (61.43%) of the island (29,484.7 km2 ) is in Chile (Province of Tierra del Fuego and Antártica Chilena Province), while the eastern portion (38.57%, 18,507.3 km2 ) is in Argentina (Tierra del Fuego Province). It forms the major landmass in an extended group of islands or archipelago also known as Tierra del Fuego.
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Isla Pérez Isla Pérez is an island located in the Gulf of Mexico, 130 km (80.7 mi) north of Progreso, Mexico, off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It belongs to the Arrecife Alacranes National Park, and is the largest island in the archipelago.
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Kings Island (California) Kings Island is an island in the Old River (California) in the south Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California, fifteen kilometres southwest of Stockton. The small 3.5 ha island is the smallest of a cluster of delta islands including Eucalyptus Island, Widdows Island, Victoria Island (California), and Coney Island, adjacent to Clifton Court Forebay. At 1 metre below sea level with the surrounding waters kept a bay by a levee system, the island is accessible only by the one road from the Clifton Court levee or by boat.
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Rapa Iti Rapa, sometimes called Rapa Iti (Little Rapa, to distinguish it from "Rapa Nui" (Big Rapa), a name for Easter Island), is the largest and only inhabited island of the Bass Islands in French Polynesia. An older name for the island is Oparo. Its area is 40 km with a population of almost 500 and a max elevation of 650 m. Its main town is Ahuréi.
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Graham Island Graham Island is the largest island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands), lying off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is separated only by a narrow channel from the other principal island of the group, Moresby Island ("Gwaii Haanas" in the language of the Haida people). It has a population of 4,475 (2001 census), an area of 6361 km² , and is the 101st largest island in the world, Canada's 22nd largest island.
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Island An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago, e.g. the Philippines.
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Cedros Island Cedros Island (Isla de Cedros, "island of cedars" in Spanish, also called in English Cerros Island in former times) is a Mexican island in the Pacific Ocean.
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Isla Espíritu Santo Isla Espíritu Santo is an island in the Gulf of California, off the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It is separated from Isla Partida by a narrow canal.
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Oeno Island Oeno Island ( ) or Holiday Island is a coral atoll in the South Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Islands overseas territory.
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Puná Island Puná Island is an island off the coast of southern Ecuador at approximately 80 degrees west longitude and 3 degrees south latitude. It is located at the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil, south of the mouth of the Guayas River and the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and chief port. It is bordered by Jambelí Channel on the east and Morro Channel on the west, both of which connect the open Gulf of Guayaquil to the narrow mouth of the Guayas River. The total area of Puná Island is 330 sqmi . The island is a parish of Guayaquil Canton in Guayas Province.
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Pearl Islands The Pearl Islands (Spanish: Archipiélago de las Perlas or Islas de las Perlas) are a group of 200 or more islands and islets (many tiny and uninhabited) lying about 30 mi off the Pacific coast of Panama in the Gulf of Panama.
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San Juan River (Vancouver Island) The San Juan River is a river on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, draining into the Pacific Ocean at Port San Juan, the harbour for Port Renfrew, which is at the limit of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which lies south and southeast of the river. Its name is derived from that or Port San Juan, which is also the namesake of San Juan Ridge, which lies on the south side of the river's final W-E course.
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Urup Urup (Russian: Уру́п , Japanese: 得撫島 , "Uruppu-to " , Ainu: ウルㇷ゚‎ , "Urup " ) is an uninhabited volcanic island in the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. Its name is derived from the Ainu language word for salmon trout. It was formerly known as Company's Land.
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Tsuken Island Tsuken Island (津堅島 , Tsuken-jima , Okinawan: "Biti") is an island in the Pacific Ocean in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The island is southernmost of the Yokatsu Islands, and is located 3.8 km south south-east of the Katsuren Peninsula off Okinawa Island at the entrance of Nakagusuku Bay. Tsuken covers 1.88 km2 and has a population of 487 residents.
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Anacapa Island Anacapa Island (Chumash: " 'Anyapakh") is a small volcanic island located about 11 mi off the coast of Port Hueneme, California, in Ventura County. The island is composed of a series of narrow islets 6 mi long, oriented generally east-west and 5 mi east of Santa Cruz Island. The three main islets, East, Middle and West Anacapa, are collectively known as The Anacapas by some authors. All three islets have precipitous cliffs, dropping off steeply into the sea.