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Roanoke Island

island in Dare County, North Carolina, United States
Landform island Q1636839
Roanoke Island
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Facts

10 properties
Instance of
island
Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 35.883°, -75.655°[5]
Area
+46.48[9]
Length
+16.0[8]
Located in or next to body of water
Albemarle Sound[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dare County[2]
Located in/on physical feature
Outer Banks[6]
Population
+6724[7]
Width
+4.3[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Roanoke Island en Roanok Island ar جزيرة روانوك es Isla de Roanoke fr Île de Roanoke fr Ile Roanoke fr île Roanoke fr Roanoke Island hu Roanoke sziget id Pulau Roanoke it isola di Roanoke ja ロアノーク島 ko 로어노크섬 pl Roanoke pt Ilha de Roanoke ru Роанок zh 罗阿诺克岛 zh 羅亞諾克島 zh 羅阿諾克島
🔖 Identifiers · 20
VIAF cluster ID
237744786, 234757326
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85114586
GND ID
4117050-7
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11957307t
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Roanoke-Island
Freebase ID
/m/0jwnl
GNIS Feature ID
993416
GeoNames ID
4488228
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
roanoke-island
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0430825
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Roanoke
Harper's tag
roanoke-island
Show all 20 identifiers +8
IdRef ID
027558339
NL CR AUT ID
ge1118292
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007541231205171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
17135291
Topic's main category
Category:Roanoke Island
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10045910
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Island", "RoanokeIsland"]
Yale LUX ID
place/cb85a1e7-8e07-41b3-9324-78caf36ebf3c

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
0 m 2026-09-26 T/ISL · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Country 1
United States
Instance of 1
island
Located in or next to body of water 1
Albemarle Sound
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Dare County
Located in this place 1
Battle of Roanoke Island
Located in/on physical feature 1
Outer Banks
People born here 1
Virginia Dare
Topic's main category 1
Category:Roanoke Island
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Roanoke Island
← Located in/on physical feature 1
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
← Place of burial 1
Andy Griffith
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Summary

Roanoke Island is an island[1].

Related Entities

Andy Griffith United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 28d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'hu', 'id', '
    Harper's tag → roanoke-island
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: roanoke-island, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289963987|roanoke island (#289963987)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's "
  2. 26w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Country → United States
    Topic's main category → Category:Roanoke Island
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Dare County
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Island", "RoanokeIsland"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257262|batch #257262]]"
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