Round Island is a Michigan island in the Straits of Mackinac. The island is small, only 378 acres (150 hectares) in size. Almost the entire island comprises the Round Island Wilderness Area within the Hiawatha National Forest. The sole building on the island is a vintage lighthouse, Round Island Light, built in 1895. Round Island Light was an active lighthouse in 1895-1947, and was relit by a private foundation in 1996. Official language(s) English de-facto Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 11th 96,889 mi² / 250,941 km² 239 miles / 385 km 491 miles / 790 km 41. ... The Straits of Mackinac, spanned by the Mackinac Bridge, seen from the southern shore The Mackinac Straits is the strip of water that connects two of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and separates the Lower Peninsula of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ... Broadly, a wilderness area is a region where the land is left in a state where human modifications are minimal; that is, as a wilderness. ... Road sign of the Hiawatha National Forest in Alger County Hiawatha National Forest is a National Forest in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan in the United States. ... The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Round Island is adjacent to, and to some extent protects the harbor of, nearby Mackinac Island, and the estimated 900,000 tourists who visit Mackinac Island annually by ferryboat pass close by Round Island on their journeys. To Round Island's southeast lies the inhabited island of Bois Blanc. Mackinac Island (pronounced , note the silent c) is a small island, 4. ... The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and possibly their vehicles, on a relatively short-distance, regularly-scheduled service. ... Bois Blanc Township is a township in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

The ship channel between Mackinac Island and Round Island, lighted by Round Island Light, is called "Round Island Channel." Look up Channel on Wiktionary, the free dictionary In general, channel refers to the path between two endpoints. ...

The Native Americans called the island "Nissawinagong." Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...

There are also several other islands with the same name elsewhere in Michigan:

• Round Island, Chippewa County, in Lake Superior, has a lighthouse
• Round Island, Chippewa County, in St. Marys River, has a lighthouse
• Round Island, Alpena County in Lake Huron, has a lighthouse
• Round Island, Delta County in Green Bay of Lake Michigan
• Round Island, Delta County, in Big Bay de Noc in Lake Michigan
• Round Island, Keweenaw County, off Isle Royale in Lake Superior
• Round Island, Presque Isle County, in Grand Lake
• Round Island, Wayne County, at southern tip of Grosse Ile in Lake Erie