Harbor Island

Harbor Island is an island in Hancock County, Down East, Maine. Access is restricted and requires permission. Harbor Island is situated nearby to the village Minturn, as well as near Swans Island.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hockamock Head Lighthouse.

Hockamock Head Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Fran Schwanck, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station is a lighthouse on Swan's Island, Maine. It is located on Hockamock Head, at the entrance to Burnt Coat Harbor and at the end of Harbor Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Minturn and Swans Island.

Minturn is a small village on the south side of Swan's Island, a part of Hancock County, Maine, United States. The decline of fishing in general and of the local population has caused the village to dwindle.

Swans Island

Village

Photo: Fran Schwanck, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Swan's Island is an island town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It is named after Colonel James Swan, of Fife, Scotland, who purchased the island and some surrounding areas and organized their colonization in the eighteenth century.

Frenchboro

Photo: Diiscool, CC0.

Frenchboro has a population of 38 and is located on 14 small islands in Blue Hill Bay in the Down East region of Maine. Less than a hundred people live here year round and they keep things much as they have been for decades.

Harbor Island

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Type: Island
Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Hancock County, Down East, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.1273° or 44° 7′ 38″ north

Longitude

-68.44182° or 68° 26′ 31″ west

Elevation

72 feet (22 metres)

Open location code

87PH4HG5+W7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 21793839

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=island

GeoNames ID

4966451

Wikidata ID

Q49640351

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Harbor Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Harbor Island”

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