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Is 137 square miles as big as Ellis Island?

It's about 3,000 times as big as Ellis Island
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The size of Ellis Island is about 0.0429 square miles.
(Jersey City, New Jersey and New York City, New York)(now officially part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument)
Ellis Island, home of the Ellis Island Immigration Station, is 0.0429 square miles in total area. Nine-tenths of the island were artificially created after the New York-New Jersey borders had already been defined, leading to a sovereignty dispute which was settled by the US Supreme Court in 1998.
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