Plum Island
Plum Island is an island in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York. The island is situated in Gardiners Bay, east of Orient Point, off the eastern end of the North Fork coast of Long Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Suffolk County, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Isle of Patmos” and “Manittuwond”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Terry and Plum Island Lighthouse.
Fort Terry
Fort
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Fort Terry was a coastal fortification on Plum Island, a small island just off Orient Point, New York, United States. This strategic position afforded it a commanding view over the Atlantic entrance to the commercially vital Long Island Sound.
Plum Island Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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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.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center
Military installation
Plum Island Animal Disease Center is a United States federal research facility dedicated to the study of foreign animal diseases of livestock. It is a national laboratory of the Department of Homeland Security Directorate for Science and Technology, and operates as a partnership with the U.S.
Plum Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Plum Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة بلوم (نيويورك)”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بلوم”
- Cebuano: “Plum Island”
- Chinese: “普拉姆岛 (纽约州)”
- Chinese: “普拉姆岛”
- Dutch: “Plum Island”
- Esperanto: “Pruninsulo”
- French: “Plum Island”
- German: “Plum Island”
- Hebrew: “פלאם איילנד”
- Hebrew: “פלום איילנד”
- Italian: “Isola Plum (New York)”
- Italian: “Plum Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Plum”
- Turkish: “Plum Adası”
- Ukrainian: “острів Плам”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Orient Point and Orient.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plum Island Rock and Plum Gut Harbor.
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