Block Island Sound is a strait in the open

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, approximately wide, separating Block Island from the coast of mainland

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. On the west, it extends to Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island, as well as Plum Island,

Gardiners Island Gardiner's Island is a small island in the Town of East Hampton, New York, in Eastern Suffolk County. It is located in Gardiner's Bay between the two peninsulas at the east end of Long Island. It is long, wide and has of coastline. The isl ...

, and

Fishers Island Fishers Island (Pequot: ''Munnawtawkit'') is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About long and wide, it ...

, all in the state of New York. Geographically, Block Island Sound extends west to Long Island Sound and east to Rhode Island Sound. Three

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warships have been named after the sound. See USS '' Block Island.''

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Straits of New York (state) Straits of Rhode Island Intracoastal Waterway New Shoreham, Rhode Island Bodies of water of Washington County, Rhode Island {{RhodeIsland-stub