Mackinac Island

English

Etymology

Clipping of French Michilimackinac, from Ojibwe Mishimikinaak (literally “big turtle”), after its shape, + island.

Proper noun

Mackinac Island

  1. An island in Michigan, United States.
    • 2015 April 3, Rosemary McClure, “Michigan: Flower power at Mackinac Island's Lilac Festival”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 April 2015:
      Check out the flower power on Mackinac Island in June when the island lights up with millions of lilac blooms.
    • 2019 September 22, Vanessa Swales, “A Motorcade on Mackinac Island? Pence’s Visit Breaks a Long Tradition”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 September 2019:
      Mr. Pence, the first sitting vice president to visit Mackinac Island, is apparently also the first government official to break with the island’s carless tradition.
    • 2024 May 8, “From urban streets to shoreline retreats – meet the real Michigan”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      Put your hiking boots on before you take the 20-minute ferry ride to quaint Mackinac Island.

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