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Plum Island is an island in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. 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 long and wide at its widest point. The Island is the site of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) which was established by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1954. The Island is also the site of the former U.S. military installation Fort Terry (c. 1897), and the historic Plum Island Light (c. 1869), and its automated replacement. Plum Island is owned in its entirety by the United States Government, which was considering sale of the Island as part of a debt-reduction package, but suspended the plan in February 2012.〔http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/02/22/50m-sale-of-plum-island-put-on-backburner $50M+ sale of Plum Island put on backburner. The Real Deal: New York Real Estate News. February 22, 2012 06:00PM〕 Access to the island is controlled by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On August 29, 2013, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) and United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final "Record of Decision (ROD): Public Sale of Plum Island, New York". A broad-based coalition of conservation, environmental, and civic, organizations, and others, are working to preserve Plum Island, with its diverse and unique natural and cultural resources, for the public trust. These organizations include: the (Preserve Plum Island Coalition (PPIC) ), the (Connecticut Fund for the Environment, along with its permanent regional program Save the Sound ), and (Soundkeeper, Inc. ). ==Geology== The northern portion of Plum Island is a recessional moraine deposit, and is part of the Harbor Hill-Roanoke Point-Fishers Island-Charlestown Moraine, thus is one of the Outer Lands. Boulders in the moraine can be seen in the eroding northern slope of the island. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plum Island (New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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