Barren Island
Barren Island is a peninsula and former island on the southeast shore of Brooklyn in New York City. Located on Jamaica Bay, it was geographically part of the Outer Barrier island group on the South Shore of Long Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Barren Island, Brooklyn” and “Equendito”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Floyd Bennett Field and Aviator Sports and Events Center.
Floyd Bennett Field
Historic site
Photo: Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Floyd Bennett Field is an airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in New York City, along the shore of Jamaica Bay. The airport originally hosted commercial and general aviation traffic before being used as a naval air station.
Aviator Sports and Events Center
Sports venue
Aviator Sports and Events Center is a sports and events center in Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York City. Operating as a concessionaire of the National Park Service, Aviator has refurbished four historic aircraft hangars and the surrounding grounds in partnership with the NPS.
Mau Mau Island
Island
Mau Mau Island, also called White Island, is a small uninhabited island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Gerritsen Creek and Mill Creek in the Marine Park recreation area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mill Basin and Gerritsen Beach.
Mill Basin
Neighborhood
Mill Basin is a residential neighborhood in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is on a peninsula abutting Jamaica Bay and is bordered by Avenue U on the northwest and the Mill Basin/Mill Island Inlet on its remaining sides.
Gerritsen Beach
Neighborhood
Gerritsen Beach is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Sheepshead Bay to the west and Marine Park to the east. The area is served by Brooklyn Community Board 15.
Roxbury
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
Roxbury is a community on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens originally settled by Irish immigrants in the early 20th century.
Barren Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.59288° or 40° 35′ 34″ northLongitude
-73.89319° or 73° 53′ 36″ westElevation
13 feet (4 metres)Open location code
87G8H4V4+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 357598764OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Portuguese—“Barren Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Barren Island”
- Dutch: “Barren Island, Brooklyn”
- French: “Barren Island”
- Italian: “Barren Island”
- Japanese: “バレン・アイランド (ブルックリン)”
- Japanese: “バレン島”
- Korean: “배런섬”
- Portuguese: “Barren Island (Brooklyn)”
- Portuguese: “Barren Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ryan Visitor Center and Aviator Field.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Barren Island”. Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.