found: Washington place names database, via WWW, Feb. 17, 2009(Sucia Island is north of Orcas Island in northern San Juan County. The name was given in 1791 by Juan Francisco de Eliza as isla Sucia, which has a Spanish meaning of foul. Captain Wilkes changed that named in 1841 to Percival Group; Capt. Kellett changed the name back to Sucia on British admiralty charts in 1847. The Lummi Indian name for the islands was Klow-co-me-ing, meaning "Mussels on the rocks.")
found: GNIS, Feb. 18, 2009(Sucia Islands, island, Wash., San Juan Co.)
found: Wikipedia, Feb. 18, 2009(Sucia Island is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands, San Juan County, Washington, USA. Sucia comprises 10 islands including Sucia Island, Little Sucia, Ewing, Justice, Herndon, the Cluster Islands islets, and several smaller, unnamed islands. The group of islands is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) in length and just short of a half mile wide. The cluster of Sucia Islands was purchased in 1960 by the Puget Sound Interclub Association and later donated to the State of Washington for protection as a Marine State Park)
