Mid Coast
Lincoln County
Plantation of Monhegan

Monhegan

Monhegan is a historic island plantation in the Gulf of Maine, approximately 12 nautical miles off the coast of . Part of , the island has been inhabited for over 400 years and is renowned as one of America's oldest and most influential artist colonies.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 69 residents
  • Description: island in the United States of America
  • Also known as: “Monchiggon”, “Monhegan Island”, and “Monhegan, Maine”
  • Postal code: 04852

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monhegan Island Light and Manana Island.

Lighthouse
Photo: Mainiac, CC BY 3.0.
is a lighthouse on Monhegan Island, Maine. It was first established in 1824. The present structure was built in 1850. It was Alexander Parris's last significant design.

Islet
is an island in , , United States, lying adjacent to Monhegan island, about 10 miles off Pemaquid Point on the mainland.

Building
The is an active fog signal station on Manana Island, , United States. Established in 1855, it is one of the only separately managed fog signals in the United States, having been operationally independent of for most of its existence.

Monhegan

Latitude
43.76319° or 43° 45′ 48″ north
Longitude
-69.32049° or 69° 19′ 14″ west
Population
69
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
Open location code
87MGQM7H+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7477470661
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
4972355
Wiki­data ID
Q3288454
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Monhegan” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Monhegan Island”
  • Chinese: “蒙希根”
  • Dutch: “Monhegan”
  • Finnish: “Monhegan”
  • French: “Monhegan”
  • German: “Monhegan Plantation”
  • German: “Monhegan”
  • Italian: “Monhegan”
  • Japanese: “モンヒーガン”
  • Mazanderani: “مونهگان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monhegan (Maine)”
  • Norwegian: “Monhegan”
  • Polish: “Monhegan”
  • Portuguese: “Monhegan”
  • Russian: “Монеган”
  • Russian: “Монхиган”
  • Spanish: “Monhegan”
  • Turkish: “Monhegan”
  • Ukrainian: “Монгіган”
  • Welsh: “Monhegan”

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