Patience Island

It has a land area of 0.33 sq mi (0.85 km2; 210 acres), making it the fourth-largest island in Narragansett Bay.

Aside from a single 600-square foot house, which is disconnected from the state electrical grid, Patience Island is otherwise uninhabited.

[1] The island and others nearby were named by Roger Williams and other early colonists.

Colonial school children often recited the poem: "Patience, Prudence, Hope, and Despair.

The island is populated by a warren of New England cottontail rabbits, which is part of a species restoration program related to the animal's candidacy for listing under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.