Plum Island Lighthouse
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Plum Gut Light”, “Plum Island Light”, and “Plum Island Light Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Plum Island Animal Disease Center and Orient Point Lighthouse.
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 Animal Disease Center is situated 2,500 feet northeast of Plum Island Lighthouse.
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. Orient Point Lighthouse is situated 1 mile southwest of Plum Island Lighthouse.
Fort Terry
Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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. Fort Terry is situated 1½ miles northeast of Plum Island Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orient.
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. The CDP's population was 743 at the 2010 census. Orient is situated 5 miles southwest of Plum Island Lighthouse.
Plum Island Lighthouse
- Categories: heritage site, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Southold, Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.17373° or 41° 10′ 25″ northLongitude
-72.21149° or 72° 12′ 41″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Inception
1869Open location code
87H95QFQ+FCOpenStreetMap ID
way 187401166OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseGeoNames ID
5131782Wikidata ID
Q7205330
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In Other Languages
From French to Ukrainian—“Plum Island Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Plum Island”
- French: “Phare de Plum Island”
- Russian: “Маяк острова Плам”
- Ukrainian: “Маяк острова Плам”
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