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Melita Island comes in at 64 acres. The Boy Scouts of Montana are the owners of this longtime summer camp on Flathead Lake. Melita Island has been a Boy Scout camp since the mid-1930s. Boy Scout campers share the island with mule deer, squirrels, eagles, osprey, geese and woodpeckers. Island activities include a wide variety of water sports like sailing, snorkeling, canoeing and water skiing, designed to challenge both youth and adults. Bull Island and Little Bull Island are located in the “narrows” of Flathead Lake, an area in the south of the lake separating Polson Bay from the larger portion of the lake to the north. Prior
to approximately 1920, Bull Island was also known as Idlewilde Island. The University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library houses digitized archives of Native American artifacts found on Bull Island. Little Bull, owned by one family since 1959, houses several buildings and a chapel. Emerald Island is private one-acre island listed on Airbnb as a rental for $1,709 per night. Cedar Island’s cedar and pine filled land once belonged to the Marshall family who sold the island to the state in the 1950s. The primary occupants of the island are birds, bats and some raccoons. Overnight camping is allowed.
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