- Anaho Island
Anaho Island is an island in
Pyramid Lake ,Nevada ,USA , on thePyramid Lake Indian Reservation . It is located in the southeastern part of the lake, approximately four miles east of the community of Sutcliffe. The island is home to theAnaho Island National Wildlife Refuge , which protects a colony ofAmerican White Pelican s, one of the two largest pelican colonies in the westernUnited States . It is uninhabited by humans.Access to the island is highly restricted—no boats are allowed within convert|500|ft|m of the shores. Anaho Island is a little more than a mile long from north to south and also from east to west at its widest point, and covers 634.43 acres (2.567 km²). The rocky island also has breeding colonies of
California gull s,Caspian tern s,double-crested cormorant s,great blue heron s,black-crowned night-heron s, andsnowy egret s.References, external links
* [http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=84591 Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge ]
*Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer, 2001, pg. 34
* [http://www.fws.gov/stillwater/anahoslide/anahoslide.htm U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - (slideshow of Anaho Island)]
* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-show_geoid=Y&-tree_id=4001&-_showChild=Y&-context=dt&-errMsg=&-all_geo_types=N&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-redoLog=false&-transpose=N&-search_map_config=|b=50|l=en|t=4001|zf=0.0|ms=sel_00dec|dw=0.39389731976871833|dh=0.22721189264368308|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.EnglishMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-119.5555239403337|cy=39.941882542034946|zl=5|pz=5|bo=318:317:316:314:313:323:319|bl=362:393:358:357:356:355:354|ft=350:349:335:389:388:332:331|fl=381:403:204:380:369:379:368|g=01000US&-PANEL_ID=p_dt_geo_map&-_lang=en&-geo_id=100$10000US320319401001316&-CONTEXT=dt&-format=&-search_results=15000US320319401001&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U Anaho Island: Block 1316, Block Group 1, Census Tract 9401, Washoe County, Nevada; United States Census Bureau]
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