ellis island

English Thesaurus

1. an island in New York Bay that was formerly the principal immigration station for the United States (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	island,
definition	:	a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water (noun.object)

part meronym	:	garden state, jersey, new jersey, nj,
definition	:	a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies (noun.location)