clockwise around Vashon-Maury Island
- Point Heyer (KVI Beach) and Point Robinson (PDF) (vashonhistory.com)
Point Heyer — better known to Islanders as KVI Beach after KVI Radio purchased the Vashon sand spit and built a tower on it in 1936 — and Point Robinson — where a lighthouse stands — were named in 1841 by Charles Wilkes of the American Exploring Expedition after his quartermaster Henry Heyer and his crewmember John Robinson.
- Mira (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
MIRA (Omicron Ceti). Mira, its very name telling us that we should take strong notice, Mira “the amazing one,” the word coming from the same root as “miracle,” Mira the only proper-named star in the sky that for a time is too faint to be seen with the naked eye.
