Lower Head

Lower Head is a cape in Hancock County, Down East, Maine. Lower Head is situated nearby to the village Swans Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swans Island and Minturn.

Swans Island

Village

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.

Minturn

Village

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.

Lower Head

Type: Cape
Category: landform
Location: Hancock County, Down East, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

44.09747° or 44° 5′ 51″ north

Longitude

-68.50419° or 68° 30′ 15″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Open location code

87PH3FWW+X8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12279650731

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=cape

GeoNames ID

4970717

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