Yellow Ledge
Yellow Ledge is an islet in Hancock County, Down East, Maine. Yellow Ledge is situated nearby to the village Swans Island, as well as near Minturn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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. Hockamock Head Lighthouse is situated 2½ miles northeast of Yellow Ledge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swans Island and Minturn.
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. Swans Island is situated 2½ miles northeast of Yellow Ledge.
Minturn
Village
Minturn is a small village on the south side of Swan's Island, a part of Hancock County, Maine, United States. Its approximate latitude and longitude are 44°8’ N, 68°27’ W. Minturn is situated 3 miles northeast of Yellow Ledge.
Frenchboro
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.
Yellow Ledge
- Type: Islet
- Categories: bar, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Hancock County, Down East, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.11696° or 44° 7′ 1″ northLongitude
-68.48634° or 68° 29′ 11″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
87PH4G87+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 21793372OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
4983595Wikidata ID
Q49624032
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In Other Languages
“Yellow Ledge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yellow Ledge (piliw sa Estados Unidos, Maine, Hancock County)”
- Cebuano: “Yellow Ledge”
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