Deer Island
Deer Island is a peninsula in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Since 1996, it has been part of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park. Although still an island by name, Deer Island has been connected to the mainland since the former Shirley Gut channel, which once separated the island from the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts, was filled in by the 1938 New England hurricane.Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boston Harbor Islands and Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Boston Harbor Islands
Photo: Godsendlemiwinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Boston Harbor Islands are a group of thirty-four islands in Massachusetts that are a unit of the United States National Park System.
Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment plant
The Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant is located on Deer Island, one of the Boston Harbor Islands in Boston Harbor. The plant is operated by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and began partial operations in 1995.
Deer Island Light
Lighthouse
Photo: RadioTheodric, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Deer Island Light is a lighthouse in Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts. The actual light is 53 feet above Mean High Water. Its alternating white and red light is visible for 9 nautical miles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winthrop and Fort Warren.
Winthrop
Photo: Sean 2015, Public domain.
Winthrop is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 19,316 at the 2020 census. Winthrop is an ocean-side suburban town in Greater Boston situated at the north entrance to the Boston Harbor, geographically nearby to the Logan International Airport.
Fort Warren
Hamlet
Photo: Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0.
Fort Warren is a historic fort on the 28-acre Georges Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor. The fort is named for Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren, who sent Paul Revere on his famous ride, and was later killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Fort Warren is situated 2½ miles southeast of Deer Island.
Deer Island
- Type: Cape
- Description: peninsula in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Category: landform
- Location: Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Deer Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Deer Island”
- French: “Deer Island”
- German: “Deer Island”
- Japanese: “ディア島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deer Island”
- Norwegian: “Deer Island”
- Russian: “Дир-Айленд”
- Swedish: “Deer Island”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Fort Dawes and Point Shirley.
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