The island hasspruce andbalsam fir, and is composed of dark-green fine-grained volcanic rocks.[1] It has wild raspberry and gooseberry, and both mice and voles have been observed.[1]
It is the site of twoshell middens, BgDr48 and BgDr49, that have been studied and dated between 400 BC to 500 AD.[5][6][1][7] The time required for ancient natives to travel by canoe to the island has been measured.[8]
^"No. 166".Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved4 July 2021.
^"489"(PDF).Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 9 July 2021. Retrieved4 July 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 490, 497, 500, and 501 at same site.
^Bishop, Jennifer C., and David W. Black, 1988 The Lands Edge Also: Culture History and Seasonality at the Partridge Island Shell Midden. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 12:17–37.
^Shaw, Chris. "An Analysis of Lithic Materials and Morphology from the Late Maritime Woodland and Protohistoric Periods at the Devil’s Head site in the Maine Quoddy Region", 2016
^Shaw, Christopher, "A GIS Approach to Ancestral Wabanaki Canoe Routes and Travel Times", 2016
^Parks Canada, "West Isles Feasibility Study....a National Marine Park in the West Isles", December 1985
