Goat Island

American  

noun

1. an island in the Niagara River in W New York, in the middle of Niagara Falls, dividing the American Falls from the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls.

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Example Sentences

So in 1938, the Army Corps built the jetty from Goat Island to McGlinn Island, aiming to prevent sediment from filling Swinomish Channel and making it impassible for boats.

From Seattle Times

Weeks later, on June 20, Christopher Corgill caught a record-breaking snowy grouper when he reeled in a 35-pound, 12.8-ounce whopper near Goat Island.

From Fox News

Pinkie spotted them before they disappeared in the fog and shouted, “Don’t you worry, Ben. We’ll find your daddy. Philip and Art are up by Goat Island looking. Even Mr. Loring’s in a boat looking.”

From Literature

Reuters' map of the lead scourge extended “from Warren, Pennsylvania, a town on the Allegheny River where 36 percent of children tested had high lead levels, to a zip code on Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning. In some pockets of Baltimore, Cleveland and Philadelphia, where lead poisoning has spanned generations, the rate of elevated tests over the last decade was 40-50 percent.”

From Salon

Investigators said Christian Hart was killed when he was hit by a boat near the Goat Island area of Smith Lake.

From Washington Times