Copper Island

• Copper Island is an island in the North Pacific (one of the Komandorski Islands) located near Attu at the western end of the Aleutian Islands
• Copper Island is a dialect (also as Mednyy) of the Aleut language.
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  Copper Island is a local name given to the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula (projecting northeastward into Lake Superior at the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States of America), separated from the rest of the Keweenaw Peninsula by Portage Lake and the Keweenaw Waterway. The area was "isolated" by dredging in 1859 and construction (1860s) of a ship canal from Portage Lake—on the east side of the Keweenaw Peninsula—to Lake Superior on the west. The ship canal is 100 feet wide and 21 feet deep. The resulting "island" was called Kuparisaari (meaning "Copper Island") by Finnish settlers to the area. Neither the United States Geological Survey nor the state of Michigan identify this area as an island or use this name.

A newspaper named Copper Island News was formerly published in Hancock and an unrelated now-defunct newspaper called the Copper Island Sentinel was published in Calumet.

The 'Copper Island Classic' is an ice hockey tournament contested annually between Hancock Central High School and Calumet High School.

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