Packet Rock

Packet Rock is an island in Bristol, Massachusetts. Packet Rock is situated nearby to the hamlet Winsegansett Heights, as well as near Silver Shell Beach.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Black Rock and Angelica Rock.

Black Rock

Island

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

Angelica Rock

Island

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

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.

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.

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.

Packet Rock

Type: Island
Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States of America
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

-70.8692° or 70° 52′ 9″ west

Open location code

87HFH4HJ+W8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358274269

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4946586

Wikidata ID

Q49667279

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

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

Cebuano: “Packet Rock”
Turkish: “Packet Rock”

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Henrietta Rock and Brooklyn Rock.

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