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The Maine Coastal Island Registry (CIR) catalogs 3,166 of these coastal islands, along with some notable inland freshwater islands, such as Frye Island in Sebago Lake. According to the most recent CIR data, 1,846 islands are registered to private owners, while 204 islands, which contain four or more structures, are exempt from registration.
Mount Desert Island (MDI; [4] French: Île des Monts Déserts) in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine.With an area of 108 square miles (280 km 2) [5] it is the 52nd-largest island in the United States, the sixth-largest island in the contiguous United States, and the second-largest island on the Eastern Seaboard, behind Long Island and ahead of Martha's Vineyard.
May 16, 1974. The Isles of Shoals are a group of small islands and tidal ledges situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) off the east coast of the United States, straddling the border of the states of Maine and New Hampshire. They have been occupied for more than 400 years, first by fishing communities and more recently as the site of private ...
Channel Islands. The Channel Islands[note 1] are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands. Historically ...
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Harbor tidal pool. Matinicus Isle plantation is an archipelago located on the southeastern fringes of Penobscot Bay in the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean.According to the United States Census Bureau, the plantation has a total area of 9.9 square miles (26 km 2), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2) is land and 7.6 square miles (20 km 2) is water. [12]
Cushing Island. Coordinates: 43°38′28″N 70°12′28″W. Cushing Island, Portland Harbor, Alfred Thompson Bricher, ca. 1870. Cushing Island opposite the Portland Head Lighthouse. Cushing Island, or Cushing's Island, is a privately owned island in Casco Bay in the U.S. state of Maine. Part of the city of Portland, roughly 45 families live ...
Spectacle Island (Maine) Coordinates: 44°22′04″N 68°06′01″W. Spectacle Island is a privately owned island off Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It is 4 acres (1.6 ha), [ 1] and it is owned by Ashley Longmaid. [ 2] As of 2012, it is the world's ninth most expensive island [ 1] and is part of the Town of Winter Harbor .