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Isle au Haut is an island approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) long by 2 miles (3.2 km) wide in Penobscot Bay, part of the Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean. An island forest Mount Champlain, elevation 540 feet (160 m), is the highest point on the island, located on a north-south ridge occupying the island's center.
The Blessing of the Fleet is an annual event where the fishing fleet of Delacroix is blessed by a Catholic priest before the start of the fishing season. [25] [26] Large processions of highly decorated boats can be seen traveling along Bayou Terre-aux-Boeufs during the event. [25] Marker at the End of the World
Harborside is an unincorporated village in the town of Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine, United States. The community is located on the west coast of Cape Rosier, on Penobscot Bay, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Ellsworth. Harborside had a post office from April 7, 1898, until December 20, 2003; it still has its own ZIP code, 04642. [2] [3]
Islesboro is a town in Waldo County, Maine, United States, comprising Islesboro Island and several smaller islands. The population was 583 at the 2020 census. [2] It has a summer colony accessible by state ferry service from Lincolnville Beach three miles to the west, by private boat, or by air taxi service.
The area contains many lakes, such as the Presque Isle Lake and the headwaters of the Presque Isle River. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 74.4 square miles (192.8 km 2 ), of which, 61.7 square miles (159.8 km 2 ) of it is land and 12.7 square miles (33.0 km 2 ) of it (17.10%) is water.
The Maine coastal landscape was created by glacier ice and is geologically young, having been covered in ice sheets a mile thick during the last ice age.The land has not yet fully adjusted to the melting of those ice sheets about 11,000 years ago, when which caused drainage networks to form coastal rivers and basins, with the rivers meeting raw bedrock or glacially deposited gravel ridges ...
At the 2000 census, there were 41 people, 17 households and 13 families living in the plantation.The population density was 1.0 per square mile (0.39/km 2)).There were 58 housing units at an average density of 1.4 per square mile (0.54/km 2).