Plum Island

Plum Island may refer to:

  • Plum Island (Aleutian Islands), an island in Alaska, United States
  • Plum Island Bald Eagle Refuge (Illinois), a bald eagle refuge in northeast Illinois
  • Plum Island (Massachusetts), an island in Essex County, United States
  • Plum Island, Massachusetts, United States
  • Plum Island (New York), an island near Long Island, New York
  • Plum Island (novel), by Long Island author Nelson DeMille
  • Plum Island (Wisconsin), an island in Washington Township, Door County, Wisconsin

Famous quotes containing the words plum and/or island:

    “Twilight and bulb define
    the brown room, the overstuffed plum sofa,
    the boy, and the girl’s thin hands above his head.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the “big canoe” of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)