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  Long Island
To the north of the island is Long Island Sound, which separates it from the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Geologically, the island is formed of two spines of glacial moraine, consisting largely of gravel and loose rock over deeply-buried bedrock, formed during the two most recent pulses of the Wisconsinan glaciation, with a sandier outwash plain beyond.
Technically speaking, the island is actually a peninsula separated from the mainland by the East River, a tidal estuary of the Hudson River.
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 Long Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geologically, the island is formed of two spines of glacial moraine, consisting largely of gravel and loose rock over deeply-buried bedrock, formed during the two most recent pulses of the Wisconsinan glaciation,also by a chain of volcanos and earthquakes, with a sandier outwash plain beyond.
Long Island, known in the hip-hop community as Strong Island, was home to the members of the groundbreaking rap groups Public Enemy and De La Soul.
The West of Long Island was settled by the Dutch, and the East settled by Puritans from Massachusetts.
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 Long Island (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Long Island is a small island off the coast of Antigua.
Long Island, Seychelles, one of the inner granitic islands of the Seychelles
Long Island (Wisconsin), one of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior
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 Encyclopedia: Long Island (disambiguation)
Long Island is a sixty-mile (nearly 100km) long island in the Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer.
Long Island, part of New York State, is an island off the North American coast, some 118 miles (190 km) long, and from 12 to 20 miles (32 km) wide, extending from New York Harbor into the North Atlantic Ocean.
Long Island is a town located in Cumberland County, Maine that was that seceded from the City of Portland in 1993.
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 Staten Island [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Roughly triangular in shape, it is bounded on the north by Staten Island and Long Island and on the south by mainland New Jersey.
The bedrock of the island is a diabaseDiabase is a mafic, holocrystalline, igneous rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.
As an island, Staten Island was formed in the wake of the last ice age An ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers ("glaciation").
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 Staten Island biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located on an island of the same name on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor.
Indeed, much of the central and southern sections of the island was once dominated by farms, primarily dairy and poultry farms, some of which were still in existence as recently as the early 1960s.
Staten Island is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull.
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 Long Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
To the north of the island is (A sound between Long Island and Connecticut) Long Island Sound, which separates it from the coast of (A New England state; one of the original 13 colonies) Connecticut and (A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state) Rhode Island.
The island's tallest point is Jayne's Hill near (United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)) Melville, with an elevation of 400.9 feet (122.2 m) above sea level.
The eastern end of the island is still partly agricultural, now including many (A farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced) vineyards as well as traditional truck farming.
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 Articles - Staten Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The highest point on the island, the summit of Todt Hill elevation 410 ft (125 m), is also the highest point in the five boroughs, as well as the highest point on the Atlantic Coastal Plain south of Maine.
The bedrock of the island is a diabase sill formed during the volcanic eruptions that created much of the bedrock of northern New Jersey, including the Palisades, approximately 200 million years ago.
The island was probably abandoned later, possibly because of the extinction of large mammals on the island.
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 Staten Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Staten Island is both the name of an island on the west side of the Narrows at the entrance of New York Harbor as well as the name of the one of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States.
As an island, it is separated from Long Island by the Narrows and from mainland New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull.
From 1639 to 1655, the Dutch made three separate attempts to establish a permanent settlment on the island, but each time the settlement was destroyed in the conflicts between the Dutch and the Indians.
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 Brooklyn - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island (aka Battle of Brooklyn) was fought during the American Revolutionary War.
It occupies the western part of Long Island, and together with Queens County they form the part of Long Island within New York City.
(Long Island contains two other counties, Nassau and Suffolk County.) The highest point of Kings County is the area around Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, rising approximately 200 feet above sea level.
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 Brooklyn biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At its westernmost section, Brooklyn is closest to Staten Island at the Narrows, and the two are connected there by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.
The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in the area that is today Brooklyn, a western part of Long Island then largely inhabited by the Canarsee Native American tribe.
On August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island (aka Battle of Brooklyn) was the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War.
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 Long Walk - Biggest walk resource on the Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, a book destined to take its place among...
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 East River biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It separates Long Island (the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn) from the island of Manhattan and the Bronx.
Along the east of Ward's Island, at approximately the strait's midpoint, the it narrows into a channel called Hell Gate, which is spanned by both the Triborough Bridge and the Hell Gate Bridge.
Newtown Creek on Long Island drains into the East River, forming part of the boundary between Queens and Brooklyn.
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 Bambooweb: New Haven Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut, and is located in New Haven County, Connecticut, on New Haven Harbor, on the northern coast of Long Island Sound.
New Haven is also the home port of a life-size replica of the historical Amistad slaveship which is open for tours at Long Wharf pier at certain times during the summer.
Despite being within the New York--Northern New Jersey--Long Island, NY--NJ--CT--PA Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area, New Haven is also contained within the more local New Haven--Meriden Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area where it serves as the primary metropolitan focal point for most of New Haven County and for a slice of Middlesex County.
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 Long Island - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Long Island Exchange (http://www.longislandexchange.com) home page detailing everything on and around Long Island New York
Central Pine Barrens (http://www.pb.state.ny.us) A state designated region on Long Island protected for its water resources and ecological communities.
Long Island Families (http://www.lifamilies.com) Articles, news, and community for Long Island
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 Encyclopedia: Long Island, New York
Most people in the New York metropolitan area reserve the term "Long Island" or "the island" for Nassau and Suffolk counties only.
For a list of communities in Suffolk County, see Suffolk County cities and towns.
Long Island Exchange (http://www.longislandexchange.com) home page detailing everything on and around Long Island New York
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[[Image Link]] Long Island, part of New York State, is an island off the North American coast, some 118 miles (190 km) long, and from 12 to 20 miles wide, extending from New York Harbor into the North Atlantic Ocean.
To the south are the Great South Bay, South Oyster Bay, and Jamaica Bay, then a number of small barrier islands, and the Atlantic Ocean.
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 info: BROOKLYN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1898, Brooklyn residents voted by a slight majority to join with Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Richmond (later Staten Island) as the five boroughs to form the modern City of Greater New York.
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The Cyclones play at Keyspal Park, located in southern Brooklyn near the Coney Island boardwalk.
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