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Ellis Island is an island in , within the U.S. states of and . Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once 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 National Monument”, “Ellis‘ Island”, “Ellis’s Island”, “Fort Gibson”, “Gibbet Island”, “Gull Island”, “Ki-oshk”, “Kiosh”, “Kioshk”, and “Oyster Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

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The is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on in , within , U.S.

Museum
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Museum
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The is located on in . The museum opened on May 16, 2019, and is focused on the creation, meaning, and history of the , a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi which the people of France gave to the people of the United States in 1886.

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 . It is located west of and east of Bergen Hill, and the site of one of the earliest European settlements in North America.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood and planned community at the southern tip of in . The neighborhood is situated along the waterfront, and separated the and by the West Side Highway.

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is 's second-largest city. sits in in the northeastern section of the state, across the Hudson from its older and bigger cousin, and south of .

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
leisure=­park
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 (востраў)”
  • Belarusian: “Эліс”
  • Breton: “Enez Ellis”
  • Bulgarian: “Елис Айлънд”
  • Catalan: “Ellis Island”
  • Catalan: “Illa d’Ellis”
  • Catalan: “Illa Ellis”
  • Cebuano: “Ellis Island”
  • Chinese: “Ellis Tó”
  • Chinese: “埃利斯岛”
  • Chinese: “埃利斯島”
  • Chinese: “愛麗絲島”
  • Croatian: “Otok Ellis”
  • Czech: “Ellis Island”
  • Danish: “Ellis Island”
  • Dutch: “Ellis Island”
  • Esperanto: “Ellis Island”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Ellis”
  • Estonian: “Ellis Island”
  • Faroese: “Ellis Island”
  • Faroese: “Ellisoy”
  • Finnish: “Ellis Island”
  • French: “Ellis Island”
  • French: “Fort Gibson”
  • Galician: “Illa Ellis”
  • German: “Ellis Island”
  • German: “Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island”
  • Greek: “Έλλις”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Έλις”
  • Greek: “Νήσος Έλλις”
  • Hebrew: “אי אליס”
  • Hebrew: “אליס איילנד”
  • Hebrew: “אליס אילנד”
  • Hebrew: “אליס”
  • Hebrew: “האי 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: “Ellis Island”
  • Romanian: “Insula Ellis”
  • Russian: “Ellis Island”
  • Russian: “Музей иммиграции”
  • Russian: “Остров Эллис”
  • Russian: “Эллис”
  • Serbian: “Ostrvo Elis”
  • Serbian: “Острво Елис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ellis”
  • Slovak: “Ellis Island”
  • Slovenian: “Ellis Island”
  • Spanish: “Ellis Island”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Ellis”
  • Spanish: “Isla Ellis”
  • Swedish: “Ellis Island”
  • Tagalog: “Ellis Island”
  • Tagalog: “Isla ng Ellis”
  • Tagalog: “Isla ng Talaba”
  • Tagalog: “Island of Ellis”
  • Tagalog: “Island of Oyster”
  • Tagalog: “Islang Ellis”
  • Tagalog: “Little Oyster Island”
  • Tagalog: “Maliit na Isla ng Talaba”
  • Tagalog: “Maliit na Pulo ng Talaba”
  • Tagalog: “Oyster Island”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng Ellis”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng Talaba”
  • Tagalog: “Pulong Ellis”
  • Turkish: “Ellis Adası”
  • Turkish: “Ellis Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Елліс”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Елис”
  • Urdu: “ایلس جزیرہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Ellis”
  • Welsh: “Ynys Ellis”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایلس جزیرہ”
  • Yiddish: “עליס איילענד”

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