Sandy Hook
Sandy Hook is a narrow land spit on the Atlantic coast of New Jersey. It is owned by the Federal Government and most is managed by the National Park Service as one of three units comprising Gateway National Recreation Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Spit
- Description: peninsula in Monmouth County, New Jersey
- Also known as: “Cabo de Arenas”, “Coleman’s Point”, “Godyn’s Point”, “Godyns Punt”, “Goodwins Point”, “Gradyns Point”, “Naosh”, “Racko Rumwaham”, “Sandy Point”, “Sandy Pointe”, and “Sant Punt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandy Hook Light and Marine Academy of Science and Technology.
Sandy Hook Light
Lighthouse
Photo: MichaelMottl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, located about one and a half statute miles inland from the tip of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States.
Marine Academy of Science and Technology
School
The Marine Academy of Science and Technology is a coeducational four-year magnet public high school located in the Sandy Hook section of Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Hancock and Waterwitch.
Fort Hancock
Hamlet
Photo: Wikijazz, Public domain.
Fort Hancock is a former United States Army fort at Sandy Hook in Middletown Township, New Jersey. The coastal artillery base defended the Atlantic coast and the entrance to New York Harbor, with its first gun batteries operational in 1896.
Waterwitch
Hamlet
Highlands is a borough in northern Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A historic waterfront community located on the Raritan Bay within the Raritan Valley region, this scenic borough is a commuter town of New York City in the New York metropolitan area.
Sandy Hook
- Categories: landform and peninsula
- Location: Middletown, Monmouth County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Sandy Hook from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Russian—“Sandy Hook” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Sandy Hook”
- Cebuano: “Sandy Hook”
- Chinese: “桑迪胡克 (新泽西州)”
- Chinese: “桑迪胡克 (新澤西州)”
- Chinese: “桑迪胡克”
- Chinese: “沙勾”
- Czech: “Sandy Hook”
- Danish: “Sandy Hook”
- Dutch: “Sandy Hook”
- Estonian: “Sandy Hook”
- Finnish: “Sandy Hook”
- French: “Sandy Hook”
- German: “Sandy Hook”
- Italian: “Sandy Hook”
- Japanese: “サンディ・フック”
- Japanese: “サンディフック”
- Korean: “샌디 후크”
- Korean: “샌디 훅”
- Korean: “샌디후크”
- Korean: “샌디훅”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandy Hook”
- Norwegian: “Sandy Hook”
- Polish: “Sandy Hook”
- Portuguese: “Baía de sandy hook”
- Portuguese: “Sandy Hook”
- Russian: “Санди-Хук”
- Russian: “Сэнди-Хук”
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Localities in the Area
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