Talk:Sauvie Island

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Superlative police

Sauvie Island in Oregon is the largest island along the Columbia River, at 26,000 acres (105 km²), and is also the largest non-delta river island on earth.

This sentence currently opens the page, and is tagged with a "citation needed". A quick browse of wikipedia turns up at least one non-delta river island that is significantly larger: Island of Montreal, said to be 499 sq km. Another contender is Wolfe Island (Ontario), at 124 sq km, although one might quibble over whether it is truly a "river island".

In any case, I found these counterexamples in just a few minutes of half-hearted searching. I bet there are many others from all over the world. So I'm removing the claim as part of my ongoing effort to reduce false claims of "world's biggest X" from wikipedia. You know superlatives are the 3rd leading source of misinformation? Pfly 05:23, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's been almost 4 years, but I'm back to play superlative police! Currently the page begins by saying Sauvie Island is the largest river island in the United States, with a land area of 32.75 sq mi. But what about Sugar Island (Michigan), which according to its page is "in the St. Marys River", with an area of 49 sq mi? Pfly (talk) 08:25, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think you should remove the superlative as WikiBlame reveals it was added by an IP editor here. Then can you take on the world's shortest river and the ~~world's smallest harbor~~ (I see you already did that one!)? :-) Valfontis (talk) 17:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No public beach access?

The page currently states that one of the four beaches at Suavie Island has no public access. I always thought that all beaches in Oregon were public beaches, that private beaches were not permitted by state law. Perhaps that is only ocean beaches and does not apply to river beaches. What do you think? ErinHowarth (talk) 03:43, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is true that anyone can go on the beaches up to the yearly high water level; however, much of the land surrounding the shore is private, so the only way to get to the water is walk around the private property. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.55.28.98 (talk) 22:39, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]