Ellis Island

Ellis Island is an island in , within the U.S. states of and . Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States.
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  • Type: Islet
  • Description: island in New York Harbor in the United States of America
  • Also known as: “Anderson’s Island”, “Bucking Island”, “Dyre Island”, “Ellis‘ Island”, “Ellis’s Island”, “Ellisoy”, “Fort Gibson”, “Gibbet Island”, “Gull Island”, “Isla ng Ellis”, “Isla ng Talaba”, “Island of Ellis”, “Island of Oyster”, “Islang Ellis”, “Ki-oshk”, “Kiosh”, “Kioshk”, “Little Oyster Island”, “Maliit na Isla ng Talaba”, “Maliit na Pulo ng Talaba”, “Oyster Island”, “Pulo ng Talaba”, “Pulong Ellis”, “Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island”, “Έλλις”, “Музей иммиграции”, “Острів Елис”, “Эліс (востраў)”, “אי אליס”, “אליס אילנד”, “האי אליס”, and “愛麗絲島”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

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The is a colossal neoclassical…

Museum
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Museum
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The is located on in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Communipaw and Battery Park City.

Village
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is a neighborhood in in , in the U.S. state of .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood and planned…

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is 's second-largest city.

Ellis Island

Latitude
40.69868° or 40° 41′ 55″ north
Longitude
-74.0407° or 74° 2′ 27″ west
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
Open location code
87G7MXX5+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27459262
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
5097612
Wiki­data ID
Q202175
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yiddish—“Ellis Island” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ishulli i Ellisit”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة إيليس”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ellis”
  • Basque: “Ellis Island”
  • Basque: “Ellis uhartea”
  • Bavarian: “Ellis Island”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Эліс”
  • Belarusian: “Эліс”
  • Breton: “Enez Ellis”
  • Bulgarian: “Елис Айлънд”
  • Catalan: “Ellis Island”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Ellis”
  • Cebuano: “Ellis Island”
  • Chinese: “埃利斯岛”
  • Chinese: “埃利斯島”
  • Croatian: “Otok Ellis”
  • Czech: “Ellis Island”
  • Danish: “Ellis Island”
  • Dutch: “Ellis Island”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Ellis”
  • Estonian: “Ellis Island”
  • Faroese: “Ellis Island”
  • Finnish: “Ellis Island”
  • French: “Ellis Island”
  • Galician: “Illa Ellis”
  • German: “Ellis Island”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Έλις”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Έλλις”
  • Hebrew: “אליס איילנד”
  • Hebrew: “אליס”
  • Hungarian: “Ellis Island”
  • Hungarian: “Ellis-sziget”
  • Indonesian: “Ellis Island”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Ellis”
  • Irish: “Oileán an Choraintín”
  • Italian: “Ellis Island”
  • Japanese: “エリス島”
  • Korean: “엘리스섬”
  • Latvian: “Elisa sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Eliso sala”
  • Malay: “Pulau Ellis”
  • Marathi: “एलिस आयलंड”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ellis Tó”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ellis Island”
  • Norwegian: “Ellis Island”
  • Persian: “جزیره الیس”
  • Persian: “جزیره ایلیس”
  • Polish: “Ellis Island”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Ellis”
  • Portuguese: “Ellis Island”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Ellis”
  • Romanian: “Insula Ellis”
  • Russian: “Остров Эллис”
  • Russian: “Эллис”
  • Serbian: “Ostrvo Elis”
  • Serbian: “Острво Елис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ellis”
  • Slovak: “Ellis Island”
  • Slovenian: “Ellis Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Ellis”
  • Spanish: “Isla Ellis”
  • Swedish: “Ellis Island”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng Ellis”
  • Turkish: “Ellis Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Елліс”
  • Urdu: “ایلس جزیرہ”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Ellis”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Ellis”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Ellis”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایلس جزیرہ”
  • Yiddish: “עליס איילענד”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Colgate Center and Downtown Jersey City.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Bob Hope Memorial Library and Recreation Building.

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