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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 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.
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 Nantucket Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses the entire island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The original December 13, 1966 listing on the National Register of Historic Places included only the historic downtown core and the village of Siasconset , but was expanded in 1975 to include the entire island ...
The modern reservation system evolved from the prior practice of arranging catering at a restaurant. [2] Today, at such venues, observes Joy Smith, author of Kitchen Afloat: Galley Management and Meal Preparation (2002): "It's always smart to inquire about a restaurant's reservation policy. Some will only reserve for large parties of six or more".
Nantucket Sound is a roughly triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean offshore from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is 30 miles (48 km) long and 25 miles (40 km) wide, and is enclosed by Cape Cod on the north, Nantucket on the south, and Martha's Vineyard on the west. [ 1 ]
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.