NOAA's navigational chart. Do you know where Rhode Island’s Gingerbread and Pancake Islands are? The islands are often seen but few pay attention to their existence and infamous -- and racist -- Rhode Island writer H.P. Lovecraft linked them to pirate treasure. “I used to row considerably on the Seekonk … Often I would land on one or both of the Twin Islands — for islands (associated with remote secrets, pirate treasure, and all that) always fascinated me.” — Lovecraft letter to Rimel, April 1934. Gingerbread and Pancake Islands are mere spits of land just to the north of the Washington Bridge on I-195, in the Seekonk River between Providence and East Providence.