It is located in Ellison Bay, in the town of Liberty Grove, Wisconsin.

The island is uninhabited,[3] and a botanist who visited in 1999 was unable to find any vascular plants on the island.

[4] In 2022, a large number of dead Caspian terns were found on Gravel Island, which were part of a larger die-off on Lake Michigan islands due to avian influenza.

A legend published in the early 1900s relates an incident four hundred years prior where a spirit bear was seen crossing the lake from the east shore.

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