Gardiners Point Island

Gardiners Point Island
"The Ruins" in 2022
Map
Geography
LocationBlock Island Sound
Coordinates41°08′29″N 72°08′46″W / 41.141368°N 72.146187°W / 41.141368; -72.146187
Administration

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 – it had an area at least as large as 14 acres. Today it is part of the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex, reduced, however, to a relative speck[1] consisting of the foundations of the fort.[2] It is locally referred to as "The Ruins".

The island is under the jurisdiction of East Hampton, New York.

  1. ^ [1] Google Satellite View of Gardiners Point Island (1/12/2022)
  2. ^ [2] Google image of Gardiners Point Island (displaying as of 1/12/2022)