Palmer Island
Palmer Island is an island in Bristol, Massachusetts. Palmer Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Harbor View, as well as near Pope Beach.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Also known as: “Palmers Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palmer Island Light and Fort Phoenix.
Palmer Island Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palmer Island Light Station is a historic lighthouse in New Bedford Harbor in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. The lighthouse was built in 1849 out of stone rubble.
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.
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Museum
Photo: Elpriceisright, CC BY 3.0.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum is a museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States that focuses on the history, science, art, and culture of the international whaling industry, and the colonial region of Old Dartmouth in the South Coast of Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fairhaven and New Bedford.
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
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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.
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.
Palmer Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.62442° or 41° 37′ 28″ northLongitude
-70.90985° or 70° 54′ 36″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87HFJ3FR+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
node 358273990OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Palmer Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Palmer Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Massachusetts)”
- Cebuano: “Palmer Island”
- Turkish: “Palmer Adası”
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Localities in the Area
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