Goat Island

Goat Island

Goat Island (spr. Goht Eiländ; Ziegeninsel), 1) die kleinste der Baschi-Inseln (nördlicher Philippinen-Archipel, Südostasien); 2) Insel an der Küste von Sierra Leone (Ober-Guinea, Nordwestafrika); 3) Insel in der Nähe der Großen Antille Jamaica (Westindien), gehört den Engländern; 4) Insel an der Küste des nordamerikanischen Unionstaates Rhode Island, dem Hafen von Newport gegenüber, Leuchtthurm; 5) Insel im Niagara, zwischen dem Staate New York u. der Provinz Ober-Canada (britisches Nordamerika), unmittel bar vor dem Niagarafall.


Pierer's Lexicon. 1857–1865.

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