Swinburne Island
Swinburne Island is a nature reserve in New York, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Hoffman Island, a park 0.9 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 20 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Swinburne Island in honor of Civil War hero and surgeon Dr. John S. Swinburne, who as port health officer oversaw the development of the quarantine islands.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 20.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 28.0 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hoffman Island: 0.9 mi
- Ocean Breeze: 1.7 mi
- Playland Playground: 1.8 mi
- Midland Beach: 1.8 mi
- South Beach: 1.9 mi
- South Beach: 1.7 mi
- Midland Beach: 1.8 mi
- New Dorp Beach: 2.5 mi
- Cedar Grove Beach: 2.9 mi
- Oakwood Beach: 3.2 mi
- South Beach: 1.8 mi
- Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument: 3.5 mi
- Tagging Robot: 3.7 mi
- K. 159: 3.9 mi
- First Symphony of the Sea: 4.0 mi
- World War I: 2.2 mi
- Battery Ayres: 2.3 mi
- Battery Richmond: 2.3 mi
- Battery Dix: 2.3 mi
- Battery Barry: 2.4 mi
- New Creek Bluebelt: 2.3 mi
- Last Chance Pond Park: 2.8 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 3.5 mi
- Saint Francis Woodlands: 4.0 mi
- Todt Hill Woods: 4.2 mi
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum: 2.6 mi
- Mont Sec House: 2.8 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 3.1 mi
- Alice Austen House: 3.5 mi
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum: 3.6 mi
- Surfside Multicultural Garden Coalition: 3.0 mi
- West 23rd Street Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Native Rhododendron Garden: 4.0 mi
- Compost and Community Garden: 4.1 mi
- Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House: 3.2 mi
- Endeavor: 3.6 mi
- Jurassic Park: 3.7 mi
- Happy Fishing: 3.7 mi
- Sideshows by the Seashore: 3.8 mi
- Fox Hills: 3.7 mi
- Emerson Hill: 3.7 mi
- Park Hill: 3.9 mi
- Todt Hill: 4.1 mi
- Signal Hill: 4.2 mi
- Freedom Field: 9.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 9.3 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 9.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 9.5 mi
- Linden Airport mini-park: 10.7 mi
- Palisades: 12.2 mi
- Palisades: 14.2 mi
- Palisades: 17.1 mi
- Hawk Hill: 18.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 19.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.0 mi
- The Loch: 16.5 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 17.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 7.6 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 7.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.1 mi
- North Tower: 12.2 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 12.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 11.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 11.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 17.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 20.1 mi
- Barber: 11.2 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 19.4 mi
- Raritan Landing: 22.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Swinburne Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NNW 329° | 179 m | 19.8 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 319° | 175 m | 19.0 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 320° | 134 m | 22.2 mi |
| Long Hill | WNW 294° | 126 m | 22.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | NW 305° | 125 m | 4.1 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 211° | 120 m | 14.0 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SSW 208° | 106 m | 13.5 mi |
| Nook Hill | NW 311° | 92 m | 17.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 4 mi away.
- Ring-billed Gull29 obs
- Rock Pigeon28 obs
- American Herring Gull28 obs
- common mugwort26 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull25 obs
- Harbor Seal19 obs
- Black Medick17 obs
- Common Atlantic Slippersnail17 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/21808038
Day trips start here
- Staten Island · 5 mi
- Bayonne · 8 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 9 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 10 mi
- Keansburg · 10 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 10 mi
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