Shelter Island
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| Location in Suffolk County (New York) | |
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| Foundation : | 1730 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | new York |
| County : | Suffolk County |
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 4 ′ N , 72 ° 19 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
| Residents : | 2,392 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 75.9 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 75.4 km 2 (approx. 29 mi 2 ) of which 31.5 km 2 (approx. 12 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 17 m |
| Postal code : | 11965 |
| Area code : | +1 631 |
| FIPS : | 36-66839 |
| GNIS ID : | 979489 |
| Website : | www.shelterislandtown.us |
Shelter Iceland is a city ( town ) in Suffolk County of the US state of New York with 2,392 inhabitants (Census 2010). It is located on the island of the same name, which lies in the east of Long Island between the two peninsulas North Fork and South Fork in Shelter Island Sound .
geography
The area of the island is 31.5 km², together with the corresponding water areas, the city comes to 75.4 km². It is located near the eastern end of the deep cut that divides the eastern part of Long Islands into the two peninsulas called "forks". East is up Gardiners Iceland reaching bay Gardiners Bay , the north and south past leading to Shelter Iceland waterways and the west in the Noyack Bay continuing bay are called the Shelter Iceland sound. The main bays in the island's intricate coastline are Coecles Inlet to the east and Smith Cove and West Neck Harbor to the south.
Larger parts of the island, especially the Mashomack Peninsula in the east, consist of wetlands comparable to the Hamptons , the rest is for the most part quite thinly built with residential and holiday homes.
The neighboring cities are Southold on the North Fork and Southampton and East Hampton on the South Fork.
structure
The settlement of Shelter Island is divided into the two Hamlets and Census-designated places Shelter Island with 1234 inhabitants in the southeast and Shelter Island Heights with 981 inhabitants in the west and north as well as the small Dering Harbor with 13 inhabitants in the north, which has the status of a incorporated village has divided.
history
Shelter Island was originally settled by Manhanset Indians, from whose name Ahaquatawamok , "island protected by islands", the English name is derived. With a deed dated December 27, 1652, the island was sold to British sugar traders from Barbados ; one of them, Nathaniel Sylvester, was the first European to colonize it. As a result, Quakers in particular immigrated . The city was founded in 1730.
From 1871 tourism was built on the island and Shelter Island Heights was built as a holiday resort. Large hotels dominated. In 1910 the largest, Manhanset House , burned down. The incorporated village of Dering Harbor was built in its place at the initiative of vacation home owners, and individual vacation homes have dominated the island since then. In 1980 the Mashomack Peninsula was bought by the Nature Conservancy and placed under protection. Shelter Island Heights has been listed as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993 .
education and Science
In 1947 the first Shelter Island Conference , one of the most famous conferences in the history of physics and a milestone in the development of quantum field theory , took place on the island .
Infrastructure
Shelter Island has no bridge connection to the rest of the Long Islands, there are only ferry connections to Greenport in the north, travel time about 8 minutes and North Haven in the south, travel time about 5 minutes. The ferries run every 10 to 20 minutes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Helen Otis Lamont (1975): The Story of Shelter Island in the Revolution, The Shelter Island Historical Society
- ↑ Shelter Island Heights Historical District ( Memento of December 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The National Academics: The Shelter Island Conference
- ^ North Ferry Service