Great Captain Island Light
Great Captain Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Great Captain Island in the western Long Island Sound off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse built 1868 in Connecticut, United States
- Also known as: “Great Captain Island Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Captain Island and Calf Islands.
Great Captain Island
Islet
Great Captain Island, also known more familiarly as "Great Captain's Island," is an island off the coast of Greenwich, Connecticut. The 17.2-acre island is the largest of a three-island group that also includes Little Captain and Wee Captain.
Calf Islands
Islet
Calf Island, between 27.5-acre The island is open for visitors; although, as of the summer of 2006, it was getting relatively few of them. The island is the largest one in Greenwich waters.
Port Chester station
Railway station
Photo: Lee Cannon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Port Chester station is a commuter rail station on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line, located in Port Chester, New York. The station is the northernmost station on the line in New York before crossing into Connecticut. Port Chester station is situated 2½ miles northwest of Great Captain Island Light.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Byram and Port Chester.
Byram
Village
Byram is a neighborhood/section and census-designated place in the town of Greenwich in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It had a population of 4,146 at the 2010 census, and a census-estimated population of 4,216 in 2018. Byram is situated 2 miles northwest of Great Captain Island Light.
Port Chester
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Port Chester is a village in the U.S. state of New York and the largest part of the town of Rye in Westchester County by population. At the 2010 U.S. census, the village had a population of 28,967 and was the fifth-most populous village in New York State.
Rye
Photo: Minard38, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rye is a coastal city in Westchester County of New York. Best known for being home to Rye Playland which was built in 1928, the only publicly-owned amusement park in the U.S.A, it has the feel of a charming, wealthy small town along the Long Island Sound.
Great Captain Island Light
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Greenwich, Western Connecticut Planning Region, Fairfield County, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.9825° or 40° 58′ 57″ northLongitude
-73.62363° or 73° 37′ 25″ westElevation
23 feet (7 metres)Inception
1868Open location code
87G8X9MG+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 6908705062OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Great Captain Island Light” goes by many names.
- French: “Great Captain Island Light”
- French: “phare de Great Captain Island”
- French: “Phare de Great Captain Island”
- Russian: “Маяк острова Грэйт Каптен”
- Russian: “Маяк острова Грэйт-Каптен”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Round Island and Belle Haven.
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