Egg Island
Egg Island is an island in Bristol, Massachusetts. Egg Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Silver Shell Beach, as well as near Harbor View.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Also known as: “Lower Egg Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Butler Flats Lighthouse and Fort Phoenix.
Butler Flats Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Butler Flats Light is a sparkplug lighthouse located in the outer harbor of New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the mouth of the Acushnet River. Built in 1898 by the United States Lighthouse Board, it is the only known caisson lighthouse designed by a marine architect.
Fort Phoenix
Fort
Fort Phoenix is a former American Revolutionary War-era fort located at the entrance to the Fairhaven-New Bedford harbor, south of U.S. 6 in Fort Phoenix Park in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
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.
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.
Egg Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.60983° or 41° 36′ 35″ northLongitude
-70.88837° or 70° 53′ 18″ westOpen location code
87HFJ456+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 358273966OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4935718Wikidata ID
Q49637425
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Egg Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Egg Island”
- Turkish: “Egg Adası”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Little Egg Island and Medeiros Beach.
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