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Kellogg Island is a small island in the Duwamish River. It is the remnants of Mud Island, a much larger island at the mouth of the Duwamish estuary. Now a nature reserve, it is the largest remaining piece of riparian habitat in the Lower Duwamish, comprising the majority of the river's remaining intertidal wetlands.

Geography
Kellogg Island is a small island in the lower Duwamish River. It is about 17 acre in area, and mainly covered in marsh.

History
Initially a deep marine inlet, the Duwamish River formed after the eruption of Mount Rainier, with a large lahar known as the Osceola Mudflow filling the inlet with volcanic debris. The White and Black Rivers were initially the Duwamish's primary tributaries.

Kellogg Island is a remnant of the much larger Mud Island, known in Lushootseed as or 'something muddy'.

The island was an early center of focus in the Port of Seattle's Duwamish River cleanup efforts.