SUNK-ISLAND, a district (extra-parochial), in the southern division of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the county of YORK, 20 miles (S. E. hy E.) from Kingston upon Hull, containing 216 inhabitants. Here is a small chapel, in the patronage of the Archbishop of York, also a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This island has been gradually recovered from the Humber; a century ago it comprised only eight hundred acres, but it now contains five thousand, in a high state of cultivation, and more is expected to be embanked within a very short period. It was originally two miles from the opposite shore, and vessels formerly passed through the channel, which is now so narrow as to be crossed by a bridge to the main land.