Shooting Island

Shooting Island is an islet in Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey. Shooting Island is situated nearby to the neighborhood Anglesea, as well as near the hamlet Grassy Sound South.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hereford Inlet Lighthouse and The Great Nor’easter.

Hereford Inlet Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Skip Willits Photography, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Hereford Inlet Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located in North Wildwood, New Jersey, situated on the southern shore of Hereford Inlet at the north end of Five Mile Beach.

Morey's Piers & Beachfront Waterparks is a seaside amusement park located on The Wildwoods' boardwalk in Wildwood and North Wildwood, New Jersey. The park has been family owned and operated since 1969 and was run by second generation Morey Brothers, Will and Jack. The Great Nor’easter is situated 2 miles south of Shooting Island.

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 first opened on June 10, 1996 with 2 trains from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The Great White is situated 2 miles south of Shooting Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wildwood and Whitesboro.

Wildwood

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

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.

Whitesboro

Hamlet

Photo: Smallbones, CC0.

Whitesboro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Middle Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Whitesboro is situated 3 miles northwest of Shooting Island.

Burleigh

Hamlet

Photo: Smallbones, CC0.

Burleigh is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Middle Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey; Until the 2000 census the area had been part of the Whitesboro-Burleigh CDP, which was split in 2010 into separate CDPs for Burleigh and Whitesboro. Burleigh is situated 3 miles northwest of Shooting Island.

Shooting Island

Type: Islet
Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.01538° or 39° 0′ 55″ north

Longitude

-74.8118° or 74° 48′ 43″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

87F7258Q+57

OpenStreetMap ID

way 272974264

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

4504106

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