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The Alexander Islands include more than 40 islands, ranging in size from small shoals to larger islands over 5 acres with several coastal bays and interior wetlands. The islands are a combination of exposed acidic bedrock with patches of White Pine, Eastern White and Red Cedar. In addition, several small, isolated wetland patches within depressions in the bedrock are present supporting species such as Leatherleaf and Virginia Chain Fern. The irregular shape of the islands also creates several sheltered bays which during low water conditions often result in extensive emergent coastal marshes.

Several of these bays were found to support Stiff Yellow Flax, a Great Lakes endemic. Several of the islands are geologically unique in that the glaciers left an absolutely flat, polished surface of Precambrian rock. This absolutely level, barren surface of the Precambrian is a topography not seen elsewhere in the archipelago and has been a point of curiosity for travelers of the coastal waters of the Georgian Bay for as long as there have been travelers.