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Plum Island is an island in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York. The island is situated in Gardiners Bay, east of Orient Point, off the eastern end of the North Fork coast of Long Island. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at its widest point. [1]
For years, plenty of wild rumors and conspiracy theories have swirled around an 840-acre (340-hectare) speck of land a mile-and-a-half off New York's Long Island, home to a high-security federal research facility that Internet-fueled urban legends have made into the East Coast's equivalent of Area 51. Some have speculated that animal-human ...
Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Location: Orient Point, NY. Since 1954, the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) has served as the nation’s premier defense against accidental or intentional introduction of transboundary animal diseases—highly transmissible diseases of livestock and other animals, including foot-and-mouth disease ...
Isolated on Plum Island off the eastern tip of Long Island, New York, the center has been tasked with protecting America's livestock from animal diseases since 1954. It is the only facility in the country authorized to work with live foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) samples, and specializes in the study of FMD and African swine fever . [ 3 ]
Plum Island hosts one of the few remaining seagrass meadows in Long Island Sound, the largest seal haul-out area in southern New England, 228 bird species, and oxygen-rich waters that are home to federally-listed marine species such as Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles and Atlantic sturgeon.
Located just off the tip of Long Island’s North Fork, New York’s Plum Island measures three miles in length, and is only accessible by boat. The island has pristine, sandy beaches, and...
Plum Island, a hidden ecological treasure, boasts the largest seal haul-out in New York and habitat for 229 bird species.
“Plum Island is one of the natural treasures of the Northeast,” Bishop said last month of seals, terns and other endangered wildlife living amid overgrown defunct Spanish-American War-era Fort...
Largest seal haul-out in New York. Habitat for 228 bird species - nearly a quarter of the bird species found in North America. Significant ecological sites. Over a dozen rare plant species. Rich fish population. Fort Terry, a National Register Historic Site. Plum Island Lighthouse, a National Register Historic Site
Plum Island Lighthouse stands on three-acres at the west end of Plum Island, which were purchased from Richard Jerome for $90 in 1826, and marks the east side of Plum Gut, a mile-wide entrance to Long Island Sound with extremely strong tidal currents.