Plum Island (New York)
Plum Island (41°10′59″N 72°11′25″W / 41.18306°N 72.19028°W / 41.18306; -72.19028) is an island in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. The island is in Gardiners Bay, east of Orient Point, off the eastern end of the North Fork coast of Long Island. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1-mile (1.6 km) wide at its widest point.
The island is the site of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center, located in the former Fort Terry, and is also the location of the historic Plum Island Light and its automated replacement.
Plum Island is owned by the US Government, which was considering sale of the island as part of a debt-lowering package, but scrapped the plan in February 2012. Access to the island is controlled by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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Famous quotes containing the words plum and/or island:
“A restaurant is a fantasy—a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.”
—Warner Leroy, U.S. restaurateur, founder of Maxwell’s Plum restaurant, New York City. New York Times (July 9, 1976)
“The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)