What is "oak island"

Oak Island is a privately owned island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. The tree-covered island is one of about 360 small islands in Mahone Bay and rises to a maximum of above sea level. The island is located from shore and connected to the mainland by a causeway and gate.

The island is best known for various theories about possible buried treasure or historical artifacts, and the associated exploration.

Oak Island, Minnesota is an island and unincorporated community in Lake of the Woods, in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, on the Minnesota/ Ontario border. It is part of Angle Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota.

Oak Island is a barrier island on the Atlantic coast of southeastern North Carolina in Smithville Township, Brunswick County. The island contains the towns of Oak Island and Caswell Beach as well as the North Carolina Baptist Assembly and a United States Coast Guard station, which is home to the Oak Island Lighthouse. Although the area has been called Oak Island since colonial times, it only became a true island with the construction of the Intracoastal Waterway. It is about 12 miles long and averages about one mile wide; roughly 8000 people live on the island year-round, which can balloon up to 40,000 during the summer.

Oak Island can refer to:

• Oak Island, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, an island famous for treasure hunting legend.
• Oak Island, Cornwallis River, Kings County, Nova Scotia, the original location of New Minas, Nova Scotia.
• Oak Island, Gaspereau River, Kings County, Nova Scotia, a small island near Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.
• Oak Island (North Carolina)
  • Oak Island, North Carolina, a town on the island
• Oak Island (Minnesota)
• Oak Island, Texas, a community in central Chambers County
• Oak Island (Wisconsin)
• Oak Island, a hamlet of Babylon, New York
• Oak Island in Hammond, New York
• Oak Island Yard, a rail facility in Newark, New Jersey
• Oak Island (Our Last Night album) is an album by the American post-hardcore band Our Last Night.1
• Oak Island (Nightlands album), is an album by Nightlands

Oak Island is one of the Apostle Islands, in northern Wisconsin, in Lake Superior, and is part of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.

Oak Island, also known as the William Seabrook, Jr. House, is a historic plantation house located at Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was built about 1828-1831, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, rectangular, central-hall, frame, weatherboard-clad residence with a projecting two-story rear pavilion. It features two, massive, interior chimneys with heavily corbelled caps and a one-story, wraparound hipped roof porch.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Oak Island is a studio album by Nightlands, which is the solo project of Dave Hartley. Released on January 21, 2013 on Secretly Canadian, it was positively received by critics, with Heather Phares of Allmusic giving it 4.5/5 stars and writing that "Despite Nightlands' scientific approach, Oak Island doesn't sound sterile or too calculated; instead, Hartley revisits the innocence of the past with sophistication, like seeing the places you went when you were 17 with new eyes."