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islands An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

found within

New York State New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. stat ...

. * Alder Island * Alger Island * Association Island *

Barnum Island Barnum Island is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 2,590 at the 2020 census. It occupies the eastern portion of an ...

Beeren Island Beeren Island (''Beeren Eylandt'' in the original Dutch), also known as Barren Island or Bear Island, is an island in the Hudson River within the town of Coeymans, New York. It lies south of the city of Albany, and is at the border of four coun ...

* Big Crow Island * Big Hassock Island * Bird Island * Black Banks Island *

Broad Channel Island Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies the southern portion of Rulers Bar Hassock (known colloquially as "Broad Channel Island"), the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay. Th ...

* Brother Island *

Calumet Island Calumet Island is an island on the St. Lawrence River, located in the Town of Clayton in Jefferson County, New York. The island formerly featured one of the earliest examples of the large castles built in the Thousand Islands region during t ...

* Captree Island *

Carleton Island Carleton Island is located in the St Lawrence River in upstate New York. It is part of the Town of Cape Vincent, in Jefferson County. History Originally held by the Iroquois, one of the first Europeans to take notice of the island was Pierre ...

* Catwright Island *

Cayuga Island Cayuga Island is a small island in the Niagara River in Niagara County, New York, a few miles upstream of the Niagara Falls. Cayuga Creek empties into the river on the north side of the island. (Note: is not the same Cayuga Creek that flows throu ...

* Cedar Island * Cedar Island (Babylon) *

Cedar Island (Shelter Island) Cedar Island may refer to: Canada *Cedar Island (Kingston), in Kingston, Ontario * Cedar Island (Kingsville), in Kingsville, Ontario *Cedar Island (Niagara River), in Niagara Falls, Ontario United States * Cedar Island (Alaska) * Cedar Island (C ...

Cedar Island (Nassau County) Cedar Island may refer to: Canada * Cedar Island (Kingston), in Kingston, Ontario * Cedar Island (Kingsville), in Kingsville, Ontario *Cedar Island (Niagara River), in Niagara Falls, Ontario United States * Cedar Island (Alaska) * Cedar Island ( ...

* Center Island *

Cinder Island Cinder is an alternate term for scoria. Cinder or Cinders may also refer to: In computing *Cinder (programming library), a C++ programming library for visualization *Cinder, OpenStack OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing plat ...

* City Island * Clifford Island *

Colonels Island, New York Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge of ...

* Columbia Island *

Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, Manhattan Beach to its east, L ...

Constellation Rock A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object. The origins of the earliest constellation ...

Constitution Island Constitution Island is in the Northeastern United States, northeastern United States, located in New York (state), New York on the east side of the Hudson River, north of New York City. It is directly opposite the United States Military Acade ...

Crab Island (Lake Champlain) Crab Island is a roughly limestone island situated in Lake Champlain just outside Plattsburgh Bay in the town of Plattsburgh in Clinton County in upstate New York. During the War of 1812, the island was utilized as a military field hospital f ...

* Crab Island (Long Island Sound) * Croil Island * Croyle Island * Cuba Island *

Dark Island Dark Island, a prominent feature of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, is located in the lower (eastern) Thousand Islands region, near Chippewa Bay. It is a part of the Town of Hammond, in St. Lawrence County, New York. A historic landmark on the is ...

* Davids Island * Dayton Island * Deer Island *

Deowongo Island Deowongo Island is the only remaining island on Canadarago Lake in Otsego County, New York Otsego County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,524. The county seat is Cooperstown. The name ' ...

* Dosoris Island * Duck Island * East Island (Long Island Sound) * East Island (Hempstead, New York) * East Aler Island * East Channel Island * East Crow Island * East Fire Island *

Echo Island ''Echo Island'' is an Irish television programme for children and young adults, shown on RTÉ Network 2. It was shown at 17:00 during ''The Den'', after which programmes like ''The Legend of the Hidden City'' would air. The show effectively too ...

* Egg Island * Elder Island *

Ellis Island Ellis Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, that was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 mi ...

Eatons Neck Eatons Neck is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Huntington, New York, Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, on the North Shore (Long Island), North Shore of Long Island, in New York (sta ...

Fire Island Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the South Shore of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York. Occasionally, the name is used to refer collectively to not only the central island, but also Long ...

* Fish Island * Flat Rock Island *

Fishers Island Fishers Island (Pequot: ''Munnawtawkit'') is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About long and wide, it i ...

* Frenchman Island *

Galloo Island Galloo Island is located in eastern Lake Ontario near the entrance to Sackets Harbor in Jefferson County, New York, within the jurisdiction of the Town of Hounsfield. Geography Location Galloo Island is approximately from the New York mainland, ...

* Galop Island *

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 ...

Gardiners Point Gardiners Point Island is an island in Block Island Sound, New York, that was the former location of the Gardiners Island Lighthouse as well as Fort Tyler. Once a peninsula of Gardiners Island – permanently detached in 1888 by a storm &ndas ...

* Gatamby Rock *

Georges Island Georges Island, or George's Island, may refer to: Geography *Georges Island (Massachusetts), offshore from the city of Boston, Massachusetts *Georges Island (Nova Scotia), offshore from the community of Halifax in the Halifax Regional Municipali ...

* Gilgo Island * Glen Island * Goat Island * Goose Island (Bronx, New York) *

Goose Island (New Rochelle, New York) Goose Island is a small, rocky island in Long Island Sound and a part of the city of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York. The island is situated between Davids, Travers, and Glen islands in New Rochelle's Lower Harbor area, just west of ...

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 ...

* Grand Island * Grass Island *

Great Island Great Island () is an island in Cork Harbour, at the mouth of the River Lee and close to the city of Cork, Ireland. The largest town on the island is Cobh (called Queenstown from 1849 to 1922). The island's economic and social history has histo ...

Great Gull Island Great Gull Island is a island separating the Long Island and Block Island sounds, located approximately southwest of Little Gull Island. Both islands are located in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, and lie roughly midway be ...

* Green Island * Grenadier Island * Harrison Island * Hart Island * Hen Island * Hewlett Hassock * Hicks Island *

High Island Geologically, a high island or volcanic island is an island of volcanic origin. The term can be used to distinguish such islands from low islands, which are formed from sedimentation or the uplifting of coral reefs (which have often formed ...

Hoffman Island Hoffman Island is an artificial island in the Lower New York Bay, off the South Beach of Staten Island, New York City. A smaller, artificial island, Swinburne Island, lies immediately to the south. Created in 1873 upon the Orchard Shoal by the ...

* Hog Island * Hospital Island * Howland Island (Montezuma WMA) *

Huckleberry Island Huckleberry Island (or Whortleberry Island) is an island in Long Island Sound and part of New Rochelle, New York. It lies approximately east of Davids Island. The island consists primarily of deciduous forest with virtually no shrubs or herba ...

* Ingraham Hassock Island * Indian Island (Bay Shore West) * Indian Island (Mattituck) * Iona Island * Ironsides Island *

Islands of the Bronx An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island i ...

Isle of Meadows Isle of Meadows is a uninhabited island in the New York City borough of Staten Island in the United States. It is located along the western side of Staten Island, where Fresh Kills empties into the Arthur Kill. The island is owned by the cit ...

* Jeckyl Island * John Boyle Island * Jones Island *

Jones Beach Island Jones Beach Island is one of the outer barrier islands off the southern coast of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Etymology It is named for Major Thomas Jones, who first came to Long Island in 1692, where he proceeded to build the ...

* Lanes Island *

Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''), a large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in ...

* Little Cedar Island *

Little Galloo Island Little Galloo Island is located in eastern Lake Ontario near the entrance to Sackets Harbor in Jefferson County, New York, within the jurisdiction of the Town of Hounsfield. The small island is a protected area, and one of the very few uninhabite ...

Little Goose Island The Little Goose Island, part of the Badger Group within the Furneaux Group, is a unpopulated flat, round granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying west of the Flinders and Cape Barren islands, Tasmania, south of Victoria, in south-ea ...

* Little Gull Island * Little Island * Little Ram Island * Long Beach Island *

Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, part of the New York metropolitan area. With over 8 million people, Long Island is the most populous island in the United Sta ...

* Long Meadow Island *

Low Island Geologically, a low island is an island of coral origin. The term applies whether the island was formed as a result of sedimentation upon a coral reef or of the uplifting of such islands. The term is used to distinguish such islands from high ...

Luna Island Luna Island is a very small uninhabited island in the Niagara River, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Location and features Luna Island is in Niagara Falls, New York between Goat Island (New York), Goat Island and Niagara Falls St ...

Manhattan Island Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

* Manursing Island *

Meadow Island A meadow ( ) is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants. Trees or shrubs may sparsely populate meadows, as long as these areas maintain an open character. Meadows may be naturally occurring or artifici ...

* Meadowmere Park Island * Middle Crow Island * Middle Line Island *

Mill Rock Mill Rock is a small uninhabited island between Manhattan and Queens in New York City. It lies about off Manhattan's East 96th Street, south of Randalls and Wards Islands, where the East River and Harlem River converge. Mill Rock is located a ...

* Money Island *

Murray Isle Murray Isle is an island in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River in the U.S. state of New York. The island lies in the Town of Clayton, near its border with the Town of Orleans, in the northern part of Jefferson County. T ...

* Neptune Island * New Made Island * Nezeras Island * Nicoll Island * North Black Banks Hassock Island * North Brother Island * North Cinder Island *

North Dumpling Island North Dumpling Island is a island in Fishers Island Sound of Long Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut, south of Groton, Connecticut, Groton, within the territory of the town of Southold, New York, Southold on Long Island in New York Sta ...

* North Line Island * North Manursing Island * North Meadow Island * Oak Island (Bay Shore West) * Oak Island (New Rochelle) (in

Premium Mill-Pond Premium Mill-Pond is located in the communities of New Rochelle and Mamaroneck in Westchester County, New York. The mill-pond is situated northeast of Echo Bay, between the Premium Point peninsula and the mainland. It is fed by the Premium Rive ...

) * Olivers Island * Oscawana Island *

Outer Barrier Islands The Outer Barrier, also known as the Long Island and New York City barrier islands, refers to the string of barrier islands that divide the lagoons south of Long Island, New York from the Atlantic Ocean. These islands include Long Beach Barrier I ...

Paradise Island Paradise Island is an island in The Bahamas formerly known as Hog Island. The island, with an area of (2.8 km2/1.1 sq mi), is located just off the shore of the city of Nassau, which is itself located on the northern edge of the island of ...

* Parsonage Island * Pattersquash Island * Pearsalis Hassock * Pelican Island * Penny Island * Pine Island *

Pea Island Pea Island is an island which is part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Because of the shifting nature of the barrier island system of which Pea Island is a part, and the way in which inlets open and close over time, Pea Island has, at times ...

* Plum Island *

Pollopel Island Pollepel Island is a uninhabited island in the Hudson River in New York. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse. Description Pollepel Island has been called many different names, incl ...

Prall's Island Prall's Island is an uninhabited island in the Arthur Kill between Staten Island, New York, and Linden, New Jersey, in the United States. The island is one of the minor islands that are part of the borough of Staten Island in New York City. T ...

* Ram Island *

Randalls and Wards Islands Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and Wards Island are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and Wards Islands, in New York County, New York City,

(joined) * Rat Island *

Reedy Island Reedy Island is a small island in the middle of the channel of the Delaware River near its mouth on the Delaware Bay in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is located approximately east of Port Penn, Delaware and southwest of Salem, New Jersey. The i ...

* Ridge Island *

Rikers Island Rikers Island is a island in the East River between Queens and the Bronx that contains New York City's main jail complex. Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under in size, but has ...

Robins Island Robins Island is a island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in Suff ...

* Rock Island *

Ruffle Bar Ruffle Bar is a island located in Jamaica Bay in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, off the coast of Canarsie. The island is part of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, and lies just east of the former Barren Island, where Floyd Bennett F ...

Roosevelt Island Roosevelt Island is an island in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan. It lies between Manhattan Island to the west, and the borough of Queens, on Long Island, to the east. Running from the equivalent of East 46th to 85 ...

* Sand City Island * Sanford Island * Schodack Island *

Schuyler Island Schuyler Island, also known as Schuylers Island or Whitney Island, is a uninhabited island in Lake Champlain. It is a part of the Chesterfield, New York, Town of Chesterfield in Essex County, New York, Essex County, New York (state), New York, loc ...

* Sea Dog Island * Seamans Island * Sedge Island (Gardiners Island West) * Sedge Island (New Rochelle) * Sedge Island (Quogue) * Seganus Thatch Island * Sexton Island * Shelter Island * Shoofly Island *

Shooters Island Shooters Island is a uninhabited island at the southern end of Newark Bay, off the North Shore of Staten Island in New York City. The boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey runs through the island, with a small portion on the ...

* Short Beach Island * Simmons Hassock * Snipe Island * South Black Banks Hassock * South Brother Island *

South Dumpling Island South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

* South Line Island * Star Island *

Staten Island Staten Island ( ) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull an ...

* Strawberry Island *

Squaw Island (Canandaigua Lake) Skenoh Island is located at the north end of Canandaigua Lake, near the city of Canandaigua (city), New York, Canandaigua, New York, United States. It is one of two islands in the 11 Finger Lakes.The other is Frontenac Island (Cayuga Lake), Fronten ...

Swinburne Island Swinburne Island is a artificial island in Lower New York Bay, east of Staten Island in New York City. It was used for quarantine of immigrants. Swinburne Island is the smaller of two nearby islands, the other being Hoffman Island to the nort ...

* Tank Island * Thatch Island * The Hassock *

Throggs Neck Throggs Neck (also known as Throgs Neck) is a neighborhood and peninsula in the south-eastern portion of the borough (New York City), borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by the East River and Long Island Sound to the south and ea ...

* Three Cornered Hassock *

Thousand Islands The Thousand Islands (french: Mille-Îles) constitute a North American archipelago of 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada–US border in the Saint Lawrence River as it emerges from the northeast corner of Lake Ontario. They stretch for abo ...

* Three Sisters Islands *

Townsend Island Townsend (pronounced tounʹ-zənd) or Townshend may refer to: Places United States *Camp Townsend, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York *Townsend, Delaware *Townsend, Georgia *Townsend, Massachusetts, a New England town **Townsend ( ...

Travers Island Travers Island is a former island in Long Island Sound, located in the city of New Rochelle, New York. The island, originally united by a causeway to the mainland, comprises a tract of thirty acres in the Lower Harbor of New Rochelle, situated be ...

U Thant Island U Thant Island (officially Belmont Island) is a small artificial island or islet in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The island, created during the construction of the Steinway Tunnel directly underneath, is the smallest island in Manh ...

(Belmont Island) *

Unity Island Unity Island is an approximately island separating the Niagara River and the Black Rock Canal, located within the city limits of Buffalo, New York. The historic island is home to two public parks and a water treatment facility. It is connected t ...

(formerly known as Squaw Island uffalo * Valcour Island * Valiant Rock *

Van Rensselaer Island Van Rensselaer Island was an island in the Hudson River opposite the Administrative divisions of New York#City, city of Albany, New York, Albany, New York (state), New York. The island was also known as de Laet's Island, Kalebacker's Island, Bost ...

Van Schaick Island Van Schaick Island is an island in the city of Cohoes, New York. Van Schaick is a part of the delta of the Mohawk River at its mouth with the Hudson River. The island has been referred to by numerous names including Quehemesicos, Long, Anthony' ...

* Wansers Island * Warner Island *

West Island The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Cla ...

West Crow Island West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, German ...

* West Fire Island *

Westhampton Island The Outer Barrier, also known as the Long Island and New York City barrier islands, refers to the string of barrier islands that divide the lagoons south of Long Island, New York from the Atlantic Ocean. These islands include Long Beach Barrier ...

* Wicopesset Island * Wood Tick Island * Wreck Island *

Wright Island Wright Island is an ice-covered island long, lying at the north edge of Getz Ice Shelf about midway between Carney Island and Martin Peninsula, on the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land. Delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation High ...

Wellesley Island Wellesley Island in Jefferson County, New York, United States is partially in the Town of Orleans and partially in the Town of Alexandria. History The island was named Wells Island but during his 1815 survey of the US-Canada border renamed by ...

* Youngs Island

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