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Block Island Sound - Definition and Overview

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Block Island Sound, shown shaded in red, between the coast of the Rhode Island and Block Island.
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Block Island Sound, shown shaded in red, between the coast of the Rhode Island and Block Island.

Block Island Sound is a strait in the open Atlantic, approximately ten miles wide, separating Block Island from the coast of Rhode Island in the United States. Geographically, it is the eastward extension of Long Island Sound, as well as the westward extension of Rhode Island Sound.

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