<P> The South Shore of Long Island , in the U.S. state of New York , is the area along Long Island 's Atlantic Ocean shoreline . Though some consider the South Shore to include parts of Queens , particularly the beach communities in the Rockaways such as Belle Harbor , the term is generally used to refer to the Long Island coastline in Nassau and Suffolk counties . It is often used as a generic name for the entire southern half of Long Island rather than just the area immediately adjacent to the coastline . </P>
what is the south shore of long island
area along Long Island 's Atlantic Ocean shoreline