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Roe Island

Roe Island in an aerial photo from 2009.
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Geography
Location	Northern California
Coordinates	38°04′21″N 122°02′05″W / 38.07250°N 122.03472°W / 38.07250; -122.03472 (Roe Island)
Adjacent bodies of water	Suisun Bay
Administration
United States
State	California
County	Solano

Roe Island is an island in Suisun Bay at the mouth of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Solano County, California, 10 km east of Benicia. Its western tip is named Preston Point, and its eastern tip is Gillespie Point. It is shown, labeled "Preston Island", on an 1850 survey map of the San Francisco Bay area made by Cadwalader Ringgold and an 1854 map of the area by Henry Lange.

On November 22, 2010, Brian Hopper was rescued from Roe Island by the U.S. Coast Guard. He had been stranded on the island for five days (after his rubber raft sprung a leak), before using his cell phone to contact a cousin, who notified the Coast Guard.