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Housing Units (2000): 964
Land area (2000): 6.537336 sq. miles (16.931621 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.144344 sq. miles (0.373848 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.681680 sq. miles (17.305469 sq. km)
FIPS code: 66828
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.062171 N, 72.328003 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11964
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Shelter Island
Wikipedia
Shelter Island may refer to:
Shelter Island is approximately due west of Albany, Western Australia.
It is often mistakenly referred to as Muttonbird Island. The island is approximately off-shore from Muttonbird Beach separated by a channel that has an average depth of it is regarded as a suitable open-water dive site.
The island consists of a mass of granite but has sufficient soil for plant growth and is well vegetated on top. The island supports breeding populations of flesh-footed shearwaters and little penguins as well as small populations of feral cats and black rats.
Little penguins have also been seen on the island.
The total area of the island is . It was declared a Class 1A Nature Reserve in 1973.
"Shelter Island" is the fifth episode in the fourth season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 69th overall. It originally aired on October 20, 2008.
Shelter Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago, southeast of Lincoln Island and northwest of Juneau, Alaska, U.S. It trends northwest between Favorite and Saginaw channels. It was named in 1869 by Commander R. W. Meade of the United States Navy. The first European to sight the island was Joseph Whidbey, master of HMS Discovery during George Vancouver's 1791–95 expedition, in 1794.
Usage examples of "shelter island".
A while later he was conscious of a change in direction caused by the land breeze coming from Shelter Island to the north.