Mutsu Province The Meiji Mutsu Province was a region in the northernmost part of the main island that corresponds to today's Aomori Prefecture. At the same time, while the characters of the name were unchanged, the official reading was changed to the "on'yomi" version "Rikuō". Mutsu Province Mutsu Province is also known as or . The term is often used to refer to the combined area of Mutsu and the neighboring province Dewa which make up the Tōhoku region. Mutsu, on northern Honshū, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi and became
Camano Island "snowbirds." The island has a total land area of 102.99 km² (39.77 sq mi), though it was larger before the Great Slide of 1825. During the Last Ice Age the island, sound and land surrounding the sound was covered by a mile thick sheet of ice. As temperatures rose the glacier receding carving the island and leaving behind deposits of glacial till. Camano Island is named for the Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño. The original name of the island was "Kal-lut-chin" which in the language of the indigenous Snohomish tribe means "land jutting into a bay". They used the island as