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The Nantucket Basin is a northeast trending basin, formed in the Triassic and Jurassic, buried beneath Atlantic Coastal Plain sediments under Nantucket. The basin is believed to be 25 kilometers wide and 100 kilometers long, containing sandstone and basalt. The rock units within it appear to dip north, based on seismic-reflection profiles and ...
Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, about 30 miles (48 km) south of the Cape Cod peninsula. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government. Nantucket is the southeasternmost ...
The Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge is a nature preserve on Nantucket Island and is managed by the Trustees of Reservations. It encompasses miles of beaches, the largest red cedar woodland in New England and Great Point Light. [1] The reservation began with an acquisition of land in 1974. [2]
OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company founded by Sid Gorham, Eric Moe and Chuck Templeton [3] on July 2, 1998, and based in San Francisco, California.. In 1998, operations began with a limited selection of restaurants in San Francisco.
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, doing business as The Steamship Authority (SSA), is the statutory regulatory body for all ferry operations between mainland Massachusetts and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well an operator of ferry services between the mainland and the islands.
Although launched as the Nobska, from 1928 to 1956 she was named the Nantucket. [7] [9] Since she was renamed Nobska in 1956, two other Steamship Authority vessels have had that name: the later Naushon, and the current Nantucket itself. She was considered elegant and, at the time of her launch, modern, "the queen of the Sounds."
MV Nantucket is a 230-foot-long (70 m) ferry owned and operated by the Steamship Authority. It was built in 1974 by Belinger Shipyards in Jacksonville, Florida. She serves the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. [1] [2] She was named after a 19th-century paddlewheel steamer serving this route, the sidewheeler Nantucket.
At 350 tons, Nantucket was the first Nantucket Island ship built of Live oak with copper fastenings. The construction cost for the vessel was $52,000. [15] Nantucket's short life ended when she was wrecked in 1859. Two whale ships under construction at Brant Point, Nantucket – on the launch ways and on “camels”, nd.