# What is the longest "geographically sequential" place name you've seen.? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139 "2020-04-19T20:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/21 "2020-04-21T14:22:58Z")
Just outside Oslo there is a large peninsula called Nesodden, both nes and odde are words that still mean “promontory/peninsula” in Norwegian. The tip of that peninsula is called Nesoddtangen, adding another word for “promontory/peninsula”. It’s the point of point-point. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/22 "2020-04-21T18:23:55Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I don’t know if this is exactly what you’re looking for either, but continuing up the American River, the river splits into three forks. Rather than giving them interesting names they’re just called the North Fork American River, Middle Fork American River, and South Fork American River. This results in things with names like the South Fork American River Trail. It goes deeper than that. It’s forks all the way down. I’ve come across references (variously spelled) to “[the] East Fork of [the] North Fork of [the] North Fork [of the] American River.” I’m not sure if that’s an official name. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/23 "2020-04-21T19:30:11Z")
In NY, there are the East Branch Croton River, the Middle Branch Croton River, and the West Branch Croton River. Near me, there’s a Spring Street Road. There’s also a Quaker Lane in Quaker Street, NY. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Nord\_du\_Nord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Le\_Nord\_du\_Nord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Nord_du_Nord)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/24 "2020-04-21T19:43:21Z")
I remembered something from an old Guinness Book of World Records, and found it on Wikipedia: New Brunswick has the “Lower North Branch Little Southwest Miramichi River”, which is also the 9th longest place name in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/25 "2020-04-21T20:25:30Z")
Most people don’t know that RI is officially known as State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/26 "2020-04-22T03:01:33Z")
I can’t find it now, but I think there is an island in a lake on an island in a lake on Isle Royale in Lake Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139/27 "2020-04-22T08:05:15Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I can’t find it now, but I think there is an island in a lake on an island in a lake on Isle Royale in Lake Michigan. There used to be a web site about recursively nesting largest islands/lakes, but I couldn’t find it. Others have jumped into the void it left, such as [The Island in a Lake on an Island in a Lake on an Island](https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/12/the-island-in-lake-on-island-in-lake-on.html). And I suspect the one you’re thinking of is on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, which that site covers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-longest-geographically-sequential-place-name-youve-seen/852139.md?page=1)