Hicks Island (New York)

Hicks Island, Napeague Harbor, Napeague Bay, on the south-east tip of Long Island.

Hicks Island is an island in Napeague Bay, Suffolk County, New York, in the United States.[1] The small island is located north of Napeague on the eastern end of Long Island.

Hicks Island was named for an early owner.[2] It has also been known as Goffe Island.[1]

In September 1971 Otis G. Pike put forward a bill that the US Federal government expropriate Hicks Island, historic Gardiners Island, Cartwright Island, Gardiners Point Island and 1000 acres of the nearby shore of Long Island, and turn them into a national monument.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Hicks Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Government Printing Office. pp. 156.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference nytimes1971-09-11 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).