Goose Island

Goose Island is a nature reserve in Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut. Goose Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Round Beach, as well as near Shorehaven.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Peck Ledge Light and Manresa Island.

Peck Ledge Light

Lighthouse

Peck Ledge Light, also known as "Peck Ledge Lighthouse", is a sparkplug lighthouse in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States, southeast of Norwalk Harbor and northeast of Goose Island among the Norwalk Islands on Long Island Sound.

Manresa Island

Island

Photo: Noroton, Public domain.

Manresa Island is an island located in Norwalk, Connecticut, at the mouth of Norwalk Harbor in the Long Island Sound. The earliest name for the landform was Boutons Island, which dates to 1664.

Compo Beach

Beach

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Norwalk and East Norwalk.

Norwalk

Photo: Noroton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Norwalk is a city of 91,000 people in Fairfield County, in the state of Connecticut in the United States of America. It includes the villages of: East Norwalk, West Norwalk, Cranbury, Silvermine, Winnipauk, Wilson Point, Harbor View, Rowayton and South Norwalk, known locally as "SoNo." Norwalk, probably due mostly to its proximity to New York City, is home to many large companies.

East Norwalk

Village

Photo: StephenTS42, CC BY-SA 4.0.

East Norwalk is a neighborhood of Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. It is located mostly in Norwalk's third taxing district with segments of its northernmost area within the first and fifth taxing districts.

South Norwalk

Suburb

Photo: JohnOwensCT, CC BY-SA 3.0.

South Norwalk is a neighborhood in Norwalk, Connecticut which corresponds to the city's Second Taxing District. Often referred to as SoNo, the neighborhood was originally settled as Old Well, then chartered as the city of South Norwalk on August 18, 1870.

Goose Island

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.0717° or 41° 4′ 18″ north

Longitude

-73.3719° or 73° 22′ 19″ west

Operator

Saugatuck Valley Audubon Society, Inc.

Open location code

87H83JCH+M6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 43398126

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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