Sandy Hook, a narrow sandy peninsula of New Jersey, between the Atlantic and Sandy Hook Bay, 16 miles S. of New York. It extends some 6 miles northwards into New York Lower Bay. Near the north point are a fort, a fixed electric (1894) light 90 feet high, and a life-saving station.
Sandy Hook
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 145
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