Kiket Island
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kʷuʔkʷuʔtali | |
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 Kiket Island, as seen from Fidalgo Island across the tombolo, sdᶻalgʷiɬ. | |
 Interactive map of Kiket Island | |
| Etymology | Place of cattail mat |
| Geography | |
| Location | Puget Sound |
| Administration | |
Kiket Island (Lushootseed: kʷuʔkʷuʔtali) is a small tied island in Washington, co-managed by the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community.[1] Located at Snee Oosh, less than four miles (6.4 km) northwest of the town of La Conner in Skagit County, Washington, Kiket is connected to Fidalgo Island by a tombolo called sdᶻalgʷiɬ, over which runs an access road. The name "Kiket" is derived from the Lushootseed-language name of the island, kʷuʔkʷuʔtali. The name means "place of cattail mat." The small spit connecting the two is called sdᶻalgʷiɬ, 'changing canoes'.[2]
Hope Island lies to the south of Kiket; Skagit Island only a few hundred feet to the southwest. These islands can be said to divide Skagit Bay from Similk Bay. The shoreline of Kiket Island and vicinity has been called one of the best-studied areas of coastal Washington. Ecological studies were made in the last decades of the twentieth century, when the site was considered for a nuclear power plant.