Orient Point

Orient Point is a cape in Suffolk County, New York.

Type: Cape
Description: cape in Suffolk County, New York, United States of America
Also known as: “Oyster Point”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Orient Point Lighthouse and Cross Sound Ferry.

Orient Point Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Orient Point Light is a sparkplug lighthouse off Orient Point, New York in Plum Gut of Long Island Sound – the deep and narrow gap between Orient Point and Plum Island.

Cross Sound Ferry

Station

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cross Sound Ferry is a passenger and road vehicle ferry service operating across the Long Island Sound between New London, Connecticut, on the mainland and Orient, New York, on Long Island.

Plum Island Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Plum Island Light is located on the western end of Plum Island, which lies in the Long Island Sound, east of Orient Point at the end of the North Fork of Long Island, New York.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Orient and East Marion.

Orient

Village

Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 2.5.

Orient is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Orient had a population of 999.

East Marion is a census-designated place that roughly corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, East Marion had a population of 1,048.

Orient Point

Category: landform
Location: Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.16046° or 41° 9′ 38″ north

Longitude

-72.23316° or 72° 13′ 59″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Open location code

87H95Q68+5P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 7525199529

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cape

GeoNames ID

5129980

Wikidata ID

Q34703151

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Orient Point” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Orient Point”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Orient Point and Hay Beach.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Oyster Pond Reef and Orient Point County Park.

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