page_title: Swetman Island
hierarchical_section_title: Swetman Island
caption_attribution_description: This detail from a NOAA map of Duck Galloo Ridge shows the Northeast corner of Lake Ontario. As lakes go Lake Ontario is relatively deep. The portion north of this ridge is significantly less deep. This detail shows Swetman Island, Timber Island, Main Duck Island, and Yorkshire Island, and some subsurface shoals.
context_page_description: Swetman Island, formerly False Duck Island, is a small Canadian island in Lake Ontario, south of Picton, Ontario. It is the largest island in a chain of islands and shoals known as the False Duck Islands, not to be confused with the nearby Main Duck Islands. Nearby Timber Island is also considered part of the False Duck Islands. The False Duck Islands, the Main Duck Islands, and Galloo Island and Stony Island on the US side, and their associated shoals, form the Duck Galloo Ridge.
  The first stone lighthouse on the island was built in 1829. A second, taller lighthouse, built from concrete, replaced the original lighthouse in 1865. It was changed to automated operation in 1989.
context_section_description: Swetman Island, formerly False Duck Island, is a small Canadian island in Lake Ontario, south of Picton, Ontario.  It is the largest island in a chain of islands and shoals known as the False Duck Islands, not to be confused with the nearby Main Duck Islands.  Nearby Timber Island is also considered part of the False Duck Islands.  The False Duck Islands, the Main Duck Islands, and Galloo Island and Stony Island on the US side, and their associated shoals, form the Duck Galloo Ridge.
  The first stone lighthouse on the island was built in 1829.  A second, taller lighthouse, built from concrete, replaced the original lighthouse in 1865.  It was changed to automated operation in 1989.
caption: Swetman Island is the 2nd island from the left in this chain
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