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Apostle Islands

Lake Superior archipelago in northern Wisconsin
Place Archipelago Q3593572

Facts

8 properties

Identity

Instance of
archipelago

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.965°, -90.664°[7]
Located in or next to body of water
Lake Superior[5]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ashland County, Bayfield County[2][3]

Population and size

Area
220.443[8]

Codes

Located in time zone
Central Time Zone[6]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata Central Time Zone GeoNames America/Chicago edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Located in protected area
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore[9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Apostle Islands cs Apoštolské ostrovy fr Île des Apôtres fr îles des Apôtres fr Îles des Apôtres (Wisconsin) ja アポストル群島 pt Ilhas Apostle ru Апосл zh 使徒島 zh 阿波斯特尔群岛
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
245822817
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh89002819
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Sand Island Lighthouse Apostle Islands Bayfield County Wisconsin USA.jpg ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
apostle-island-sea-caves
BabelNet ID
00214186n
Freebase ID
/m/045hdt
GeoNames ID
5244036
J9U entity ID
987007546552905171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
20106801
Quora topic ID
Apostle-Islands
Reddit topic ID (obsolete)
apostle_islands
Topic's main category
Category:Apostle Islands
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U.S. National Archives Identifier
10046692
Yale LUX ID
place/ab57e467-a3b9-4427-bdf8-1926a388ed37
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
184 m 2026-09-26 T/ISL · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Ashland County, Bayfield County
Country 1
United States
Has these parts 1
Madeline Island
Instance of 1
archipelago
Located in or next to body of water 1
Lake Superior
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Madeline Island
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Summary

Apostle Islands is an archipelago[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Ashland County[2], a county of Wisconsin[10], in United States[11], founded in 1860[12] and Bayfield County[3], a county of Wisconsin[13], in United States[14], founded in 1835[15].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap relation ID → 20106801
    Instance of → archipelago
    Country → United States
    Located in time zone → Central Time Zone
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: OpenStreetMap relation ID: 20106801, Adding OSM relation id claim from wikidata tag on relation/20106801 in United States"
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