Thousand Islands
The Thousand Islands are an island group split between New York's North Country and Eastern Ontario, lying on the Canada-US border, where Lake Ontario meets the St. Lawrence River. It is a very scenic and popular summer cottage area.
Photo: Howcheng, Public domain.- Type: Island
- Description: archipelago of 1,864 islands along the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River
- Also known as: “1000 Islands”, “les Mille Îles”, “Milinsularo”, “Mille Isole”, “O mie de insule”, “사우전드 아일랜드”, “사우전드아일랜드”, “サウザンド・アイランズ”, “サウザンドアイランズ”, “千岛湖”, and “千島湖”
Thousand Islands
- Categories: archipelago, island group, and locality
- Location: Jefferson, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
44.3334° or 44° 20′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
-75.9997° or 75° 59′ 59″ west
Elevation
295 feet (90 metres)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Thousand Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألف جزيرة”
- Asturian: “Isles Thousand”
- Asturian: “Islles Thousand”
- Belarusian: “Тысяча астравоў”
- Cebuano: “Thousand Islands (kapuloan)”
- Cebuano: “Thousand Islands”
- Chinese: “千岛群岛”
- Chinese: “千島群島”
- Czech: “Tisíc ostrovů”
- Dutch: “Thousand Islands”
- Esperanto: “Mil Insuloj”
- Finnish: “Thousand Islands”
- French: “archipel des Mille-Îles”
- French: “Archipel des Mille-Îles”
- French: “Mille-Îles”
- German: “Thousand Islands”
- Hebrew: “אלף האיים”
- Hungarian: “Ezer sziget”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Seribu”
- Italian: “Mille isole”
- Italian: “Thousand Islands”
- Japanese: “サウザンド諸島”
- Korean: “사우전드 제도”
- Macedonian: “Илјада Острови”
- Malayalam: “ആയിരം ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thousand Islands”
- Norwegian: “Thousand Islands”
- Persian: “هزار جزیره”
- Polish: “Tysiąc Wysp”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Thousand”
- Romanian: “Thousand Islands”
- Russian: “Тысяча островов”
- Serbian: “Hiljadu ostrva”
- Sindhi: “ٿائوزنڊ آئيلينڊز”
- Slovenian: “Thousand Islands”
- Slovenian: “Tisoč otokov”
- Spanish: “Islas Thousand”
- Swedish: “Thousand Islands”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะเทาซันด์”
- Ukrainian: “Тисяча островів”
- Urdu: “تھاؤزینڈ آئی لینڈز”
- Yue Chinese: “千島群島 (北美洲)”
- Yue Chinese: “千島群島”
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