Hicks Island is an island in
Napeague Bay,
Suffolk County,
New York, in the
United States
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The small island is located north of
Napeague
Napeague (, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet with the same name in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The CDP population was 200 at the 2010 census.
Napeague is locate ...
on the eastern end of
Long Island.
Hicks Island was named for an early owner.
It has also been known as Goffe Island.
[
In September 1971 ]Otis G. Pike
Otis Grey Pike (August 31, 1921 – January 20, 2014) was an American lawyer and politician who served nine terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York from 1961 to 1979.
Early life
Pike was born in ...
put forward a bill that the US Federal government expropriate Hicks Island, historic Gardiners Island
Gardiner's Island is a small island in the Town of East Hampton, New York, in Eastern Suffolk County. It is located in Gardiner's Bay between the two peninsulas at the east end of Long Island. It is long, wide and has of coastline.
The isl ...
, Cartwright Island, Gardiners Point Island and 1000 acres of the nearby shore of Long Island, and turn them into a national monument.[
]
References
Islands of New York (state)
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