Kings Island is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 in the Old River (California) in the south Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California

San Joaquin County, California

San Joaquin County is a county located in Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, just east of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 685,306. The county seat is Stockton.-History:...

, fifteen kilometres southwest of Stockton

Stockton, California

Stockton, California, the seat of San Joaquin County, is the fourth-largest city in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. With a population of 291,707 at the 2010 census, Stockton ranks as this state's 13th largest city...

. The small 3.5 ha (8.6 acre) island is the smallest of a cluster of delta islands including Eucalyptus Island, Widdows Island, Victoria Island (California)

Victoria Island (California)

Victoria Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California, twenty kilometres southwest of Stockton...

, and Coney Island, adjacent to Clifton Court Forebay. At 1 metre below sea level with the surrounding waters kept a bay by a levee

Levee

A levee, levée, dike , embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall, which regulates water levels...

system, and is accessible only by the one road from the Clifton Court levee or by boat.

External links

• Kings Island Community website