Popes Island
Popes Island is an island in Bristol, Massachusetts. Popes Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Oxford, as well as near North Fairhaven.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Rope Island” and “Ropes Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fish Island and Crow Island.
Fish Island
Island
Fish Island is an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The island is located in the Acushnet River east of Sconticut Neck; within the city of New Bedford. The USRC Salmon P. Chase was moored at the island when she was built in 1787.
Crow Island
Island
Crow Island is an inhabited island located in New Bedford Harbor in Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
New Bedford Whaling Museum
Museum
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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
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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.
Popes Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.64015° or 41° 38′ 25″ northLongitude
-70.91453° or 70° 54′ 52″ westElevation
-10 feet (-3 metres)Open location code
87HFJ3RP+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 358273558OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Popes Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Popes Island (pulo sa Estados Unidos, Massachusetts)”
- Cebuano: “Popes Island”
- Turkish: “Popes Adası”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Oxford and North Fairhaven.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Marine Park and Pope’s Island Marina.
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