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Ellis Island - geography.

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Ellis Island - geography. Ellis Island, complex of one natural and two artificial islands, joined by causeways, in Upper New York Bay, northeastern New Jersey and southeastern New York, near Manhattan. The complex belongs to the U.S. government. From 1892 to 1954 it was the headquarters of a U.S. immigration and naturalization district. The original island was called Oyster Island by the early Dutch colonists; it was later known as Gibbet Isl...

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