Aquinnah
Aquinnah is a town at the western end of Martha's Vineyard. The bright, multi-colored clay cliffs at Gay Head are a fabulous sight. Aquinnah is home to the Wampanoag Tribe, residents of Martha's Vineyard for thousands of years and the majority population of the town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: William Waterway, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 439 residents
- Description: town on Martha’s Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Aquene-ut”, “Aquiniuh”, “Aquinnah, MA”, “Aquinnah, Massachusetts”, “Gay Head”, “Gay Head Neck”, and “Land under the Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gay Head Light and Gay Head Town Pound.
Gay Head Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Williamwaterway, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gay Head Light is a historic lighthouse located on Martha's Vineyard westernmost point off of Lighthouse Road in Aquinnah, Massachusetts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Menemsha.
Menemsha
Village
Photo: Elkman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Menemsha is a small fishing village located in the town of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. It is located on the eastern coast of Menemsha Pond, adjacent to the opening into the Vineyard Sound on the pond's northern end. Menemsha is situated 2½ miles east of Aquinnah.
Aquinnah
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Dukes County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.3431° or 41° 20′ 35″ northLongitude
-70.8137° or 70° 48′ 49″ westPopulation
439Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)Open location code
87HF85VP+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 158866610OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4937628Wikidata ID
Q2418318
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Aquinnah” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Aquinnah”
- Catalan: “Aquinnah”
- Chechen: “Аквинна”
- Chinese: “阿奎納”
- Dutch: “Aquinnah”
- French: “Aquinnah”
- German: “Aquinnah”
- Hungarian: “Aquinnah”
- Italian: “Aquinnah”
- Italian: “Gay Head”
- Kazakh: “Akyuýnnax”
- Kazakh: “Акюйннах”
- Kazakh: “اكيۋينناح”
- Kirghiz: “Акюйннах”
- Mazanderani: “آکوینا (ماساچوست)”
- Mazanderani: “آکوینا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aquinnah”
- Norwegian: “Aquinnah”
- Persian: “آکوینا”
- Persian: “اکوینا، ماساچوست”
- Polish: “Aquinnah”
- Portuguese: “Aquinnah”
- South Azerbaijani: “آکوینا، ماساچوست”
- Spanish: “Aquinnah”
- Swedish: “Aquinnah”
- Tatar: “Аквинна”
- Turkish: “Aquinnah”
- Ukrainian: “Аквінна”
- Volapük: “Aquinnah”
- Welsh: “Aquinnah, Massachusetts”
- Welsh: “Aquinnah”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aquinnah”. Photo: William Waterway, CC BY-SA 3.0.