Pope’s Folly Island
Pope's Folly Island is a small 2 acres island located 0.2 miles from the Canadian Campobello Island, but has been historically disputed whether it belongs to Canada or the United States.- Type: Island
- Description: island in Washington County, Maine, United States of America
- Also known as: “Popes Folly”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mulholland Point Lighthouse and Lubec Channel Light.
Mulholland Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Roger H. Goun, CC BY 2.0.
Mulholland Point Lighthouse is situated on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. Situated inside Roosevelt Campobello International Park overlooking the international bridge, it is only lighthouse jointly owned and operated by Canada and the United States.
Lubec Channel Light
Lighthouse
Lubec Channel Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in Lubec, Maine. Established in 1890, it is one of three surviving sparkplug lights in the state, and served as an important aid to navigation on the route from the Bay of Fundy to Eastport, Maine and the St.
Peavey Memorial Library
Library
Photo: Namiba, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peavey Memorial Library is an historic public library in downtown Eastport, Maine, United States. It was built in 1893 in the Romanesque Revival style and named for Albert Peavey, an Eastport resident whose son, Frank Peavey, had moved to Minnesota, founded a major grain company, and invented the concrete grain elevator.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lubec and Eastport.
Lubec
Photo: DrStew82, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lubec is a town in the Down East region of Maine along the coast. Lubec is the easternmost town in the United States of America.
Eastport
Photo: Ken Gallager, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eastport a town in the Down East region of Maine on Moose Island at the junction of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. A causeway on Route 190 connects the island to the mainland.
Campobello Island
Photo: Leonora (Ellie) Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Campobello Island is an island in New Brunswick, Canada. The island has no road connection to the rest of Canada except to deer island with a ferry; though there is a bridge connecting it to nearby Lubec, Maine in the United States.
Pope’s Folly Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Washington, Maine, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.8683° or 44° 52′ 6″ northLongitude
-66.984° or 66° 59′ 2″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
87PMV298+8COpenStreetMap ID
way 851683080OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4975714Wikidata ID
Q49670093
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In Other Languages
“Pope’s Folly Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Popes Folly”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Abrahams Plain and North Lubec.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lubec Veterans Memorial Park and McCurdy’s Smokehouse Museum.
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