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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.
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 .
Seavey's Island. Coordinates: 43°4′44″N 70°44′3″W. View of Seavey's Island from Prescott Park in Portsmouth, NH. The large building is the former naval prison. Seavey's Island in 1893. Seavey's Island, site of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, is located in the Piscataqua River in Kittery, Maine, United States, opposite Portsmouth, New ...
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 ...
Ragged Island (Harpswell, Maine) is a privately owned island in Harpswell, Maine, United States, in Cumberland County, which is geographically within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. It is located at 43°43′39″N 69°56′13″W / 43.72750°N 69.93694°W / 43.72750; -69.
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]
Eagle Island is an 17-acre (6.9 ha) island in the outermost portion of the archipelago of Casco Bay. Administratively part of Harpswell, it is 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Portland, approximately 2 miles from the Dolphin Marina at the end of Harpswell Neck, and 15 miles (24 km) south of Brunswick. The island has a maximum height of 40 feet (12 ...
September 8, 2024 at 10:19 PM. During a routine house call to a private estate in Camden, Maine, auctioneer Kaja Veilleux made an unexpected discovery in the property’s attic: A 17th-century ...