Swans Island

Swan's Island is an island town in , , United States. It is named after Colonel James Swan, of , , who purchased the island and some surrounding areas and organized their colonization in the eighteenth century.
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  • Type: Village with 355 residents
  • Description: town in Hancock County, Maine, United States
  • Also known as: “Burnt Coat Island”, “Swan Island”, “Swan’s Island”, “Swan’s Island, Maine”, and “Swan’s Island, ME”
  • Postal code: 04685

Places of Interest

Highlights include 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 Frenchboro.

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

Photo: Diiscool, CC0.
has a population of 38 and is located on 14 small islands in Blue Hill Bay in the region of . Less than a hundred people live here year round and they keep things much as they have been for decades.

Swans Island

Latitude
44.14508° or 44° 8′ 42″ north
Longitude
-68.45169° or 68° 27′ 6″ west
Population
355
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US IS9
Open location code
87PH4GWX+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158911155
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4980280
Wiki­data ID
Q3183220
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Swans Island” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Swan’s Island”
  • Catalan: “Swan’s Island”
  • Cebuano: “Swans Island”
  • Chechen: “Свонс-Айленд”
  • Chinese: “天鹅岛”
  • Chinese: “斯旺斯島”
  • Dutch: “Swan’s Island”
  • Dutch: “Swans Island”
  • French: “Swan’s Island”
  • German: “Swan’s Island”
  • German: “Swans Island”
  • Haitian: “Swans Island, Maine”
  • Haitian: “Swans Island”
  • Hungarian: “Swan’s Island”
  • Italian: “Swan’s Island”
  • Mazanderani: “سوآنز آیلند”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Swan’s Island”
  • Norwegian: “Swan’s Island”
  • Polish: “Swan’s Island”
  • Spanish: “Swan’s Island”
  • Spanish: “Swans Island”
  • Tatar: “Свонс-Айленд”
  • Turkish: “Swan’s Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Свонс-Айленд”
  • Urdu: “سوانز جزیرہ، میئن”
  • Volapük: “Swan’s Island”
  • Volapük: “Swan”
  • Welsh: “Swans Island, Maine”
  • Welsh: “Swans Island”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Swans Island Volunteer Fire Department and Parks Island.

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