Ballast Island is a small, 4.89 km² private island in Lake Erie, about one-quarter mile northeast of the northeast tip of South Bass Island. It is known primarily as a navigation point for boats going to or from Put-in-Bay from the east. There are shoals between Ballast and South Bass, but there is a passage between known locally as "the wagon tracks".
Ballast Island received its name when commodore Oliver Hazard Perry used rocks from this island, according to legend, to ballast his ships.George William Gardner purchased Ballast Island from Lemuel Brown in 1874 according to Ottawa County Records. The deeds show that Brown acquired the island from Joseph de Rivera St. Jurgo in 1869.
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballast_Island
Coordinates 41°40'40.835" N -82°47'8.37" E
