Angelica Rock

Angelica Rock, also known as Angelica Island, is a one-acre rock island emerging from Buzzards Bay, within the town limits of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Black Rock and West Island.

Black Rock

Island

Black Rock is a barren, uninhabited island in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It has a beacon structure.

West Island

Island

West Island is an island in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, United States, on Buzzards Bay. Approximately two-thirds of the island is reserved for the wildlife.

Clarks Point Light

Lighthouse

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Clarks Point Light is located in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Originally constructed as a wooden tower, it was replaced with a stone tower in 1804. This in turn was replaced by a structure on the parapets of Fort Rodman which was deactivated in 1898.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairhaven and Bliss Corner.

Fairhaven

Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the South Coast of Massachusetts where the Acushnet River flows into Buzzards Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bliss Corner

Hamlet

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bliss Corner is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bliss Corner had a population of 5,480. Bliss Corner is situated 4½ miles northwest of Angelica Rock.

New Bedford

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

New Bedford is in Massachusetts on the southern coast. New Bedford's excellent harbor made it a natural fishing and whaling center. It was the world's premier whaling port in the 19th century, and, for a time, "the richest city in the world" and "the city that lit the world" because of whale oil production.

Angelica Rock

Type: Island
Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
Categories: locality and landform
Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.57983° or 41° 34′ 47″ north

Longitude

-70.85837° or 70° 51′ 30″ west

Open location code

87HFH4HR+WM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358274239

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4929086

Wikidata ID

Q4762672

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Satellite Map

Discover Angelica Rock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Angelica Rock” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Angelica Rock”
Turkish: “Angelica Rock”

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