Presque Isle Explained

Presque Isle (French: links=no|presqu'île, meaning 'almost island') is a peninsula.Presque Isle, Presqu'Ile, Presquisle, Presqueile may refer to:

• Presque-isle, a type of peninsula

Places

• 24779 Presque Isle, an asteroid

Canada

• Presqu'île crater in Quebec
• Presqu'ile Provincial Park along Lake Ontario in Ontario
• Presqu'île-Robillard Ecological Reserve in Quebec
• Presqu'ile Formation, a geologic formation in Western Canada

France

• Presqu'île, a district in Lyon, France

United States

Administrative subdivisions

• Presquille, Louisiana, a CDP in Terrebonne Parish
• Presque Isle, Maine, a city
  • Presque Isle Air Force Base, former base
• Presque Isle Township, Michigan
• Presque Isle County, Michigan
• Presque Isle, Wisconsin, a town
• Presque Isle (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Geographic and historical features

Maine

• Presque Isle, Maine

Michigan

• Presque Isle, Michigan, a peninsula in the Northern Lower Peninsula
  • • • Presque Isle Front Range Light Presque Isle Harbor Breakwater Light Old Presque Isle Light New Presque Isle Light
  • Presque Isle Rear Range Light Presque Isle River
• Little Presque Isle River
• Presque Isle Park, a cape on Lake Superior near the city of Marquette, Michigan
• Presque Isle Power Plant near Marquette

Pennsylvania

• Presque Isle Bay
• Presque Isle Light
• Presque Isle State Park
• Fort Presque Isle
• Presque Isle Downs & Casino

Virginia

• Presquile National Wildlife Refuge on the James River in Virginia
• Presquile Plantation, a former 18th-century plantation on the James River and now the location of the Presquile NWR

Other

• La Presqu’île, title of a collection by French writer Julien Gracq

See also

• • • • • • • • • Peninsula (disambiguation)
• Isle (disambiguation)
• Ile (disambiguation)