Hart Island
Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. Measuring approximately 1 mile long by 0.33 miles wide, Hart Island is part of the Pelham Islands archipelago and is east of City Island.Photo: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Bronx, New York City, United States, at the western end of Long Island Sound
- Also known as: “Hart’s Island”, “Harts Island”, “Lesser Minneford Island”, and “Little Minnefords”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rat Island and The Blauzes.
Rat Island
Islet
Photo: Stercus.caput, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rat Island is a privately owned island in New York City. It is approximately 2.5 acres in size and located in City Island Harbor, which is a part of Long Island Sound.
The Blauzes
Islet
The Blauzes are two small New York City islands in City Island Harbor which are part of a reef extending 600 yards northwest of the northern tip of Hart Island.
High Island
Islet
Photo: Bigtimepeace, Public domain.
High Island is a small, uninhabited, privately-owned island, part of the Pelham Islands in the Bronx, New York City. It lies east of the north end of City Island between City Island Harbor and Pelham Bay in Long Island Sound.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include City Island and Sands Point.
City Island
Suburb
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
City Island is a neighborhood in the northeastern Bronx, New York City, located on an island of the same name approximately 1.5 miles long by 0.5 miles wide.
Sands Point
Village
Photo: GK tramrunner229, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sands Point is a village located at the tip of the Cow Neck Peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead, in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. Sands Point is situated 2½ miles east of Hart Island.
Country Club
Neighborhood
Photo: EJ220, Public domain.
Country Club is a residential neighborhood located in the East Bronx in New York City. The neighborhood's boundaries are Middletown Road and Watt Avenue to the north, Eastchester Bay to the east, Layton Avenue and the Throggs Neck neighborhood to the south… Country Club is situated 3 miles west of Hart Island.
Hart Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Spanish—“Hart Island” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հարթ (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Հարթ”
- Breton: “Hart Island”
- Catalan: “Illa Hart”
- Cebuano: “Hart Island”
- Chinese: “哈特岛 (纽约)”
- Chinese: “哈特岛”
- Chinese: “哈特島 (紐約)”
- Chinese: “哈特島”
- Czech: “Hartův ostrov”
- Danish: “Hart Island”
- Danish: “Hart’s Island”
- Danish: “Lesser Minneford Island”
- Danish: “Spectacle Island”
- Dutch: “Hart Island”
- Estonian: “Hart Island”
- French: “Hart Island”
- German: “Hart Island”
- German: “Hart’s Island”
- German: “Lesser Minneford Island”
- Hungarian: “Hart Island”
- Italian: “Hart Island”
- Italian: “isola di Hart”
- Japanese: “ハート・アイランド”
- Japanese: “ハート島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hart Island”
- Norwegian: “Hart Island”
- Persian: “جزیره هارت (برانکس)”
- Persian: “جزیره هارت”
- Russian: “Харт (остров, Бронкс)”
- Russian: “Харт”
- Spanish: “Isla Hart”
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