Little Gull Island Light

Little Gull Island Light is a lighthouse on Little Gull Island, a small island in Long Island Sound, located approximately 0.4 miles northeast of Great Gull Island.

Type: Lighthouse
Description: lighthouse on Little Gull Island in the Long Island Sound, New York, United States
Also known as: “Little Gull Island Lighthouse”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Little Gull Island and Fort Michie.

Little Gull Island

Island

Little Gull Island Light is a lighthouse on Little Gull Island, a small island in Long Island Sound, located approximately 0.4 miles northeast of Great Gull Island.

Fort Michie

Fort

Photo: Michelle Kinsey Bruns, CC BY 2.0.

Fort Michie was a United States Army coastal defense site on Great Gull Island, New York. Along with Fort H. G. Wright, Fort Terry, and Camp Hero, it defended the eastern entrance to Long Island Sound as part of the Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound, thus defending Connecticut's ports and the north shore of Long Island. Fort Michie is situated 2,700 feet southwest of Little Gull Island Light.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fishers Island.

Fishers Island

Village

Photo: Irishkevin2, Public domain.

Fishers Island is an island within the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It lies at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, two miles off the southeastern coast of Connecticut, across Fishers Island Sound. Fishers Island is situated 6 miles northeast of Little Gull Island Light.

Little Gull Island Light

Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Southold, Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.2064° or 41° 12′ 23″ north

Longitude

-72.10682° or 72° 6′ 25″ west

Elevation

3 feet (1 metre)

Height

82 feet (25 metres)

Open location code

87H96V4V+H7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 610342372

OpenStreetMap feature

building=lighthouse

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

GeoNames ID

6353006

Wikidata ID

Q6650223

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Little Gull Island Light” goes by many names.

French: “phare de Little Gull Island”
French: “Phare de Little Gull Island”

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