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Governors Island is a small island in New York City. Governors Island or Governor's Island may also refer to: * Governor's Island, Bermuda * Governors Island (Prince Edward Island), Canada * Governors Island (Massachusetts), in Boston Harbor * Governors Island (Lake Winnipesaukee), New Hampshire * Governor's Island, in Island Pond (Rockingham County, New Hampshire) * Governors Island (North Carolina), in Lake Norman * Governors Island (Bryson City, North Carolina), listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Swain County, North Carolina See also * Governors Island National Monument, on the island in New York City * Governor Island (other) * Governador Island in Rio de Janeiro * Gouverneur Island Gouverneur Island is a low rocky island west-southwest of Petrel Island and east of Cape Géodésie in the southern part of the Géologie Archipelago, Antarctica. It was photographed from the air by Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governors Island
Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located approximately south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the Buttermilk Channel. The National Park Service administers a small portion of the north end of the island as the Governors Island National Monument, including two former military fortifications named Fort Jay and Castle Williams. The Trust for Governors Island operates the remaining , including 52 historic buildings, as a public park. About of the land area is fill, added in the early 1900s to the south of the original island. The native Lenape originally referred to Governors Island as Paggank ("nut island") because of the area's rich collection of chestnut, hickory, and oak trees; it is believed that this space was originally used for seasonal foraging and hunting. The name was translated into the Dutch Noten Eylandt, then Anglicized into Nutten Island, before being rename ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor's Island, Bermuda
Bermuda is an archipelago consisting of 181 islands. List of islands See also *Geography of Bermuda ReferencesBermuda's 123 Islands Listed by name, large and small, present and past SatelliteViews.net External links *{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Islands Of Bermuda * |
Governors Island (Prince Edward Island)
Governors Island is a Canadian island located in Hillsborough Bay, a sub-basin of the Northumberland Strait along the south shore of Prince Edward Island. The island is located at 46'08"N, 63'04"W, approximately south from Keppoch and north from Point Prim. Roughly triangular in shape with an area of , the western point of Governors Island was used in the past for a lobster Lobsters are a family (biology), family (Nephropidae, Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae) of marine crustaceans. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs ... processing facility and the remainder of the land was used as an area to graze sheep and cattle. During World War Two, attempts were made to drill for oil to fuel the war effort, though none was found. Privately owned, the island had a small airstrip developed during the 1960s but has since fallen into disuse. External links Governors Island real estate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governors Island (Massachusetts)
Governors Island was an island in Boston Harbor in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The island was subsumed by land reclamation for the construction and extension of Logan International Airport General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport , also known as Boston Logan International Airport and commonly as Boston Logan, Logan Airport or simply Logan, is an international airport that is located mostly in East Boston and partially .... Governor's Island was originally owned by early Massachusetts founder Roger Conant, and known as Conant's Island. Conant grew grapes there, and very likely his vineyard is what Rev. John White referred to "as good as any are found in France by human culture," with some being "four inches around."Shipton, Clifford K. ''Roger Conant: A Founder of Massachusetts,'' pp. 57, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1944. Governor's Island was the site of Fort Winthrop, a defensive fortification named after Governor John Winthrop, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governors Island (Lake Winnipesaukee)
Governors Island is one of six bridged islands on Lake Winnipesaukee and is part of the town of Gilford, New Hampshire, in the United States. The island is primarily wooded and residential and has an area of . The island is an enclave of luxury homes, including some of the most expensive on the lake. History The island was originally granted to British colonial governor John Wentworth in 1772, although the island had already been known as Governor's Island, possibly after his uncle, Benning Wentworth, the previous governor of the colony.Mulligan, Adair D.(1995), ''The Gunstock Parish: a history of Gilford, New Hampshire''. West Kennebunk: Phoenix Publishing, In 1778 during the American Revolution, the New Hampshire legislature confiscated the lands of hitherto Governor Wentworth (who had fled to Nova Scotia) and ordered that the lands, including Governor's Island, be auctioned off, which they were in 1780 to John Cushing of Boston for 9,600 Continental pounds. Cushing in turn s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Pond (Rockingham County, New Hampshire)
Island Pond (sometimes referred to locally as Big Island Pond) is a water body located in Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire, in the towns of Derry, Hampstead and Atkinson. The pond is at the head of the Spicket River watershed, which feeds into the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The pond was formed from the merger of Perch Pond in Hampstead and Lake Wentworth in Derry in 1878, when a new dam raised the water level by . The pond is named for Governor's Island, a island that lies within it. The island in turn is named for Benning Wentworth, colonial governor of New Hampshire, who built a summer residence on the north end of the island called Birch Farm. A smaller island is named after the Native American chief Escumbuit. The lake is classified as a cold and warmwater fishery and contains largemouth and smallmouth bass, brook trout, rainbow trout, brown trout, chain pickerel, horned pout, white perch, black crappie, and bluegill. See also *List of lakes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governors Island (North Carolina)
Governors Island is one of the few islands with permanent residents on Lake Norman, in Westport, a community in Catawba Springs Township, in Lincoln County, North Carolina, USA. The island is a small, wealthy community located 20 miles northwest of Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ..., and less than half a mile from mainland Westport in the piedmont of North Carolina. This community is in the Denver, NC zipcode of 28037. The largest subdivision nearby to the north is SailView, a Crescent Community, also in Denver, NC. The total population estimate for the island was less than 200 residents as of 2010. This gated community is home to approximately 40 affluent homeowners. References Sources West Lake Norman Community Information Govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Swain County, North Carolina
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Swain County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. Current listings See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in North Carolina *List of National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina References {{Swain County, North Carolina Swain County, North Carolina Swain County Swain County is a county located on the far western border of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,117. Its county seat is Bryson City. Four rivers flow through the mountainous terrain of Swain County: t ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governors Island National Monument
Governors Island National Monument, a unit of the United States national park system, is located in New York City on of Governors Island, a island located off the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East Rivers in New York Harbor. Conversion to public use In October 1995 the United States Coast Guard announced it would close its largest base, at Governors Island Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, within the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located approximately south of Manhattan Island, and is separated from Brooklyn to the east by the Buttermilk Channel. The National Park ..., as a cost savings measure. The Coast Guard had established the base on the island in 1966 after the U.S. Army closed Fort Jay, an Army post since 1794. In 1996, the Coast Guard closed the base and conveyed it as surplus property to the federal government's General Services Administration for disposal through transfer or sale. The clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Island (other)
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Governor Island may refer to: * Governor Island (Connecticut), United States * Governor Island (Tasmania), Australia * Governor Island (Georgian Bay), Ontario, Canada * Governor Island, Falkland Islands See also * Governors Island (other) Governors Island is a small island in New York City. Governors Island or Governor's Island may also refer to: * Governor's Island, Bermuda * Governors Island (Prince Edward Island), Canada * Governors Island (Massachusetts), in Boston Harbor * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governador Island
Governador Island (Ilha do Governador, in Portuguese; literally Governor's Island, in English) is the largest island in Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a population of about 211,018 inhabitants, in a small area of . Rio de Janeiro's main airport, Galeão - Antônio Carlos Jobim International Airport, and the Galeão Air Force Base are located on Governador Island and occupy about a third of it, in the western and northwestern parts. A small sea inlet that once existed on the northwestern shore was landfilled to build the airport's runway 10/28, thereby increasing the island's area. Often mentioned by cariocas (inhabitants of Rio city) simply as ''Ilha'' ("island"), Governador Island has some favelas, such as the not pacified Morro do Dendê, the largest one, but it also has many middle-class neighborhoods like the third best IDH index in the city, the Jardim Guanabara neighborhood. The island is connected to Fundão Island and to the mainland by a complex of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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