Cresse Island
Cresse Island is an islet in Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey. Cresse Island is situated nearby to the village Wildwood Gables, as well as near Wildwood Crest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Great White and Wildwoods Convention Center.
The Great White
Photo: Dplcrnj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great White is a sit-down wooden/steel roller coaster made and built by Custom Coasters International. It has been operating since June 10, 1996 and has 2 trains from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company with 6 cars per train. The Great White is situated 2 miles east of Cresse Island.
Wildwoods Convention Center
Convention center
Photo: Sk5893, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Wildwoods Convention Center is a convention center and indoor arena in Wildwood, New Jersey. Built in 2001 to replace an older Convention Hall, the center has exhibition space of 260,000 sq ft. Wildwoods Convention Center is situated 1½ miles east of Cresse Island.
Sea Serpent
Photo: Dplcrnj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sea Serpent is a steel roller coaster at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey. Opened in 1984, it was built by Vekoma, and was the first boomerang-style coaster to be built in the US. Sea Serpent is situated 2 miles east of Cresse Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wildwood Crest and Wildwood.
Wildwood Crest
Village
Photo: Dough4872, Public domain.
Wildwood Crest is a borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Wildwood
Wildwood is on the Southern Shore of New Jersey. It is primarily a resort town whose population swells in the summer months with vacationers coming mainly from New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Quebec.
Rio Grande
Village
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Rio Grande is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Middle Township and Lower Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Rio Grande is situated 3 miles northwest of Cresse Island.
Cresse Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States
- Categories: island, wetland, locality, and landform
- Location: Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.97548° or 38° 58′ 32″ northLongitude
-74.84801° or 74° 50′ 53″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87C7X5G2+5QOpenStreetMap ID
way 796345834OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetlandOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
4501397Wikidata ID
Q34716632
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Cresse Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cresse Island”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Wildwood Gables and Shawcrest.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sunset Lake and Sunset Lake Bayfront Park.
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