Block Island
During the winter months Block Island is the very picture of a sleepy, seaside New England town, with a local population of around 900 people. In summer, the island's population explodes to nearly 10,000 at any given time, and many thousands more on busy weekends or holidays.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Block Island State Airport.
Block Island State Airport
Aerodrome
During the winter months Block Island is the very picture of a sleepy, seaside New England town, with a local population of around 900 people. In summer, the island's population explodes to nearly 10,000 at any given time, and many thousands more on busy weekends or holidays.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Shoreham.
New Shoreham
Town
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago in New England, located approximately 9 miles south of mainland Rhode Island and 14 miles east of Long Island's Montauk Point.
Block Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Rhode Island, United States of America
- Category: landform
- Location: Town of New Shoreham, South County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.1893° or 41° 11′ 22″ northLongitude
-71.5786° or 71° 34′ 43″ westPopulation
1,050Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)IATA airport code
BIDUnited Nations Location Code
US BIDOpen location code
87HC5CQC+PHOpenStreetMap ID
way 22693156
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Block Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلوك آيلاند”
- Arabic: “بلوك آيلند”
- Arabic: “بلوك ايلند”
- Arabic: “جزيرة بلوك”
- Belarusian: “Блок”
- Catalan: “Block Island”
- Cebuano: “Block Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Rhode Island)”
- Cebuano: “Block Island”
- Chinese: “布洛克島”
- Dutch: “Block Island”
- Faroese: “Blockoy”
- Finnish: “Block Island”
- French: “Block Island (Rhode Island)”
- French: “Block Island State Airport”
- French: “Block Island”
- German: “Block Island”
- German: “Manisses”
- German: “Town of New Shoreham”
- Hebrew: “בלוק איילנד”
- Hebrew: “בלוק”
- Japanese: “ブロック島 (ロードアイランド州)”
- Japanese: “ブロック島”
- Lithuanian: “Bloko sala”
- Macedonian: “Block island”
- Macedonian: “Блок Ајленд”
- Persian: “بلاک آیلند”
- Persian: “بلاک ایلند”
- Polish: “Block Island”
- Russian: “Блок (остров)”
- Russian: “Блок-Айленд”
- Russian: “Блок”
- Russian: “Остров Блок”
- Russian: “Остров Блока”
- South Azerbaijani: “بلوک ایسلند”
- Spanish: “Block Island (Rhode Island)”
- Spanish: “Block Island”
- Urdu: “بلاک جزیرہ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Block Island”. Photo: Doodybutch, CC BY-SA 4.0.