Turtle Island (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Turtle Island may refer to:
Places
[edit]Americas
[edit]- Turtle Island (Lake Erie), near Toledo, Ohio, US
- Turtle Island (Indigenous North American folklore), a name used by several Native American cultures to refer to North America or the Earth in general
- Turtle Island, Bermuda
- Tortuga (Haiti), an island in Haiti
- La Tortue, Saint Barthélemy, or Turtle Island, in the French Caribbean
Asia and Oceania
[edit]- Turtle Islands, Tawi-Tawi, a group of islands in the Southern Philippines
- Turtle Island (Newcastle Bay), in the Torres Strait Islands archipelago, Australia
- Turtle Island Resort, on Nanuya Levu in Fiji
- Vatoa, in the Lau Group in Fiji
- Kusu Island, an island in Singapore
- Turtle Island (Matsu), an island in Beigan, Matsu, Lienchiang County, Fujian Province, Taiwan
- Guishan Island (Yilan), an island off the northeast coast of Taiwan
- Ko Tao, an island in Thailand
- Turtle Islands National Park, a collective name for three islands in Sabah, Malaysia
Media, arts and entertainment
[edit]Music
[edit]- Turtle Island (album), the 1989 debut solo album by Paul Hyde of the Payola$
- "Turtle Island", a track from Mike Oldfield's Tres Lunas album
- "Turtle Island", a track from Beach House's 2008 Devotion album
- Turtle Island Quartet, modern-day jazz string quartet
- Turtle Island (book), a 1974 book of poetry by Gary Snyder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- Turtle Island: Tales of the Algonquian Nations, a 1999 children's book by Jane Louise Curry
- Turtle Island News, Canadian Native People's newspaper
Other uses
[edit]- Turtle Island (horse), (born 1991), British-trained thoroughbred racehorse
- Turtle Island Foods, makers of the Tofurky brand of soy products
- Turtle Island Recycling, a recycling and waste company that was merged into GFL Environmental
See also
[edit]- Turtle Islands (disambiguation)
- Turtle Mountain (disambiguation)
- Aspidochelone, a fabled sea creature, said to be mistaken for an island