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Island off the coast of Connecticut and New
York, USA, separated from the mainland by
Long Island Sound; area 3,627 sq km/1,400 sq
mi. It includes two boroughs of New York City
(Queens and Brooklyn), John F Kennedy
airport, suburbs, and resorts. It also has
Brookhaven National Laboratory for atomic
research, the world's largest automotive
museum, the New York Aquarium, and a whaling
museum. The popular pleasure resort of Coney
Island is actually a peninsula in the SW,
with a boardwalk 3 km/2 mi long.