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  2. Isle au Haut, Maine - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Grand Isle; Isle au Haut; Lagrange (for the Marquis de Lafayette's home) [153] Lamoine (for Andre Le Moyne, a local landowner) [153] Minot; Montville; Mount Desert Island; Paris (for the city in France) [153] Presque Isle (from the French word "presqu'île" meaning "peninsula"--- from presque meaning "almost", and isle meaning "island". The ...

  4. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    Pronunciation Note Respelling IPA; Aberdeen, Washington: AB-ər-deen / ˈ æ b ər d iː n / Also the city in Maryland Abiquiú, New Mexico: AB-ə-kew / ˈ æ b ə k juː / Regular in Spanish Acequia, Idaho: ə-SEE-kwə / ə ˈ s iː k w ə / Achilles, Kansas: ə-KIL-iss / ə ˈ k ɪ l ɪ s / Advance, North Carolina: AD-vanss / ˈ æ d v æ n s ...

  5. Isle au Haut - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Isle au Haut

  6. Acadia National Park - Wikipedia

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    Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor.The park includes about half of Mount Desert Island, part of the Isle au Haut, the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula, and portions of sixteen smaller outlying islands.

  7. Gooden Grant House - Wikipedia

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    The Gooden Grant House is a historic house at Head Harbor in Isle au Haut, Maine. Built in 1911, it is a fine vernacular Queen Anne house, home to one of the island's most colorful characters of the 20th century. Gooden Grant (1876–1975) was one of the island's most successful lobstermen, and the subject of local folkloric oral history.

  8. Midcoast - Wikipedia

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    The Midcoast is a region of the U.S. state of Maine that includes the coastal counties of Waldo, Knox, Lincoln, and Sagadahoc; and a small part of Cumberland County. [1] The Midcoast is a popular tourist destination, and many people own summer homes in the region.

  9. Penobscot Bay - Wikipedia

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    The bay was the site of a humiliating American defeat during the Revolutionary War.In 1779 a Continental Navy flotilla consisting of 19 warships and 25 support vessels was dispatched on July 24 to recapture the mid-coast of Maine from the British who had captured part of the territory and constructed fortifications near the bay, naming the newly captured territory New Ireland.