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Philosophically, you could make the argument that it really does exist.

It definitely exists.

It isn't an island, despite having Island in the name. But that's true of Coney Island as well, and it also exists.

Coney Island was an island when it got its name, though.

A closer analogy might be Vancouver's False Creek, which as the name suggests is not a creek (it's a tidal inlet).

There's always Rhode Island. There is an island by that name, but the state itself is very much not (and it's usually called Aquidneck now, the island, I mean).

Pine Island in New York State is both not an island, nor named after one, it's just slightly elevated.

Point is there's precedent.

Creek for inlet is British variant and fairly old.

Chelsea Creek in Boston empties Mill Creek.

In the Bay Area there is Alameda Island, which didn't start as an island either...

https://www.kqed.org/news/11983858/alameda-the-island-that-a...

It's only barely one today.

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