has gloss | eng: Gardiners Island is a small island in eastern Suffolk County in the U.S. state of New York, located in Gardiners Bay between the two peninsulas at the eastern end of Long Island. It is long, wide and has of coastline. It has been owned by the same family for nearly 400 years, and although occasionally reported as the largest privately owned island in America or the world, it is not. It is, however, the only American real estate still intact as part of an original royal grant from the English Crown. |