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California has more named islands than Washington, but they’re not all obvious since there’s quite a few small islands in the San Francisco Bay, Suisun Bay and

by SllX 2y ago

California has more named islands than Washington, but they’re not all obvious since there’s quite a few small islands in the San Francisco Bay, Suisun Bay and the Sacramento River Delta. I tried fact checking which of the two had the most total islands between them but couldn’t find a satisfactory answer.

cyberax 2y ago
From a practical standpoint, sailing in the Bay Area is dead boring. There's not that much worth visiting. And once you go outside of the Bay, the next interesting stop is Japan. Puget Sound is way better. It'd be nice to quantify this somehow. I guess one metric would be "navigable rocky islands"?
- mistrial9 2y ago
  you have got to be joking or else wildly uninformed. SF Bay Area sailing is known across the world. There are international races here.
  - cyberax 2y ago
    I sailed both. Sorry, but the Bay Area is just boring. Yes, it has races. They have little to do with sailing itself.
eesmith 2y ago
I went to the Geographic Names Information System at https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/searc... Name search, Names search mode is "Exact Match", Feature Classes is "Island". State (FIPS) of "California (O6)" gives 522 named places. State (FIPS) of "Washington (53)" gives 422 named places. Note that this list includes river and lake islands, including islands in reservoirs. There are two islands named "The Island" in California, neither in Wikipedia, and the one at 41.0922983, -121.4803677 does not appear to be an island.
- SllX 2y ago
  That’s what I used too, but the limitation is named places.