Sakonnet River
The Sakonnet River is a tidal strait in the state of Rhode Island which flows approximately 14 miles between Mount Hope Bay and Rhode Island Sound. It separates Aquidneck Island from the eastern portion of Newport County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: tidal strait in Rhode Island, United States
- Also known as: “Saconnet”, “Sakonet”, “Saughkonnet River”, “Saugkonnet River”, “Seaconnet River”, “Seaconnett”, “Seconnet East Passage”, and “Seoconnet River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sakonnet Light and West Island.
Sakonnet Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Zhengan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sakonnet Light, built in 1884, is a sparkplug lighthouse near Sakonnet Point, Little Compton, Rhode Island, on the eastern side of the state. The light was deactivated in 1954 after Hurricane Carol and was going to be destroyed, but local citizens protested, and eventually Carl and Carolyn Haffenreffer bought the lighthouse in 1961.
West Island
Island
West Island is a 9.6 acre uninhabited island located approximately 0.25 miles off the coast of Sakonnet Point and roughly 900 feet east of the Sakonnet Point Lighthouse in Little Compton, Rhode Island, United States. West Island is situated 1½ miles southeast of Sakonnet River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Compton and Newport.
Little Compton
Photo: Zhengan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Little Compton is a rural farming town in Newport County in southeastern Rhode Island. It includes the villages of Adamsville and Sakonnet. It is between the Sakonnet River on its west and Massachusetts and the West Branch of the Westport River to the east.
Newport
Newport is a beautiful seaside city in Rhode Island that is famous for its genteel mansions and a rich history of yachting, golf, and tennis. With a population of only 25,000, this scenic resort town punches well above its weight and was known as the "Summer White House" throughout the 1950s and 60s.
Sakonnet River
- Categories: tidal strait, river, inlet, and body of water
- Location: Newport County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Sakonnet River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sakonnet”
- Cebuano: “Sakonnet River”
- Chinese: “萨康尼特河”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sakonnet”
- Japanese: “サコネット川”
- Turkish: “Sakonnet Nehri”
- Turkish: “Sakonnet River”
- Venetian: “Sakonnet”
- Welsh: “Afon Sakonnet”
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