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Nantucket

Nantucket is an island and town 30 mi off the coast of and part of . The island offers quiet harbors, dramatic cliffs, sandy beaches, lighthouses, beautiful old mansions and gardens, interesting history – even a series of limericks about its residents.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island of Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Mantukett”, “Nantucket (island)”, “Nantucket Island”, “Nantucket Village”, “Nantuckett”, “Nantuckkit”, “Nantucquet”, “Nantukes”, “Nantukett”, “Sharborn”, “Shelburne”, “Sherborn”, “Sherbourne”, “Sherburn”, “Sherburne”, “Wesco”, and “Wesko”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brant Point Light and Jethro Coffin House.

Lighthouse
Photo: Denimadept, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a lighthouse located on Nantucket Island. The station was established in 1746, automated in 1965, and is still in operation. The current tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1987; it has the distinction of being the tenth light on the point, in addition to several range lights.

Museum
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The Oldest House on Sunset Hill, also known as the , was built in 1686 and is believed to be the oldest residence on Nantucket still on its original site.

Museum
Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a located in Nantucket, , . It is run by the Nantucket Historical Association. The Whaling Museum is the flagship site of the Nantucket Historical Association’s fleet of properties.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nantucket and Shawkemo.

Town
Photo: Ktr101, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an island in , United States, about 30 miles south of the peninsula. Together with the small islands of and , it constitutes the Town and County of , a combined county/town government.

Hamlet
is a village in Nantucket, , United States. Its elevation is 16 feet. The name is an Indian word meaning "middle field of land". lies 4 miles west-northwest of .

Nantucket

Latitude
41.3159° or 41° 18′ 57″ north
Longitude
-70.0983° or 70° 5′ 54″ west
Population
7,450
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
IATA airport code
ACK
United Nations Location Code
US ACK
Open location code
87HF8W82+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
way 22691989
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
4944903
Wiki­data ID
Q49149
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yakut—“Nantucket” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nantucket”
  • Arabic: “نانتوكيت (ماساتشوستس)”
  • Arabic: “نانتوكيت”
  • Armenian: “Նանթաքետ”
  • Asturian: “Nantucket”
  • Basque: “Nantucket”
  • Bavarian: “Nantucket”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Нантакет”
  • Belarusian: “Нантакет”
  • Bishnupriya: “নান্টুকেট কাউন্টি, ম্যাসাচুসেট্‌স”
  • Bulgarian: “Нантакет”
  • Bulgarian: “Нантъкет”
  • Catalan: “Nantucket”
  • Cebuano: “Nantucket Island”
  • Cebuano: “Nantucket”
  • Chechen: “Нантакет (гуо, Массачусетс)”
  • Chechen: “Нантакет”
  • Chinese: “Nantucket”
  • Chinese: “南塔克特”
  • Chinese: “楠塔基特岛”
  • Croatian: “Nantucket”
  • Czech: “Nantucket”
  • Danish: “Nantucket”
  • Dutch: “Nantucket”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نانتوكيت”
  • Esperanto: “Nantucket”
  • Estonian: “Nantucket”
  • Faroese: “Nantucket”
  • Finnish: “Nantucket”
  • French: “Nantucket”
  • Galician: “Nantucket”
  • Georgian: “ნანტაკეტი”
  • German: “Nantucket Island”
  • German: “Nantucket”
  • Gilaki: “نانتاکت ٚ شأرستان (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “نانتاکت ٚ شأرستان”
  • Haitian: “Nantucket, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Nantucket”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ננטאקט”
  • Hebrew: “ננטקט”
  • Hungarian: “Nantucket”
  • Indonesian: “Nantucket”
  • Irish: “Nantucket”
  • Italian: “isola di Nantucket”
  • Italian: “Nantucket”
  • Japanese: “ナンタケット”
  • Korean: “낸터킷”
  • Lithuanian: “Nantaketas”
  • Low German: “Nantucket”
  • Macedonian: “Нантакен”
  • Mazanderani: “نانتاکت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nantucket”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nantucket”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nantucket”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nantucket”
  • Norwegian: “Nantucket”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nantucket”
  • Ossetian: “Нантакет”
  • Persian: “شهرستان نانتاکت، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “نانتاکت”
  • Polish: “Nantucket”
  • Portuguese: “Nantucket”
  • Romanian: “Nantucket, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Nantucket”
  • Russian: “Нантакет”
  • Scots: “Nantucket”
  • Serbian: “Нантакет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nantucket”
  • Silesian: “Nantucket”
  • Slovak: “Nantucket”
  • Slovenian: “Nantucket Island”
  • Slovenian: “Nantucket”
  • Slovenian: “otok Nantucket”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نانتاکت”
  • Spanish: “Nantucket”
  • Swahili: “Nantucket”
  • Swedish: “Nantucket”
  • Talysh: “Nantaket”
  • Tatar: “Нантакет”
  • Turkish: “Nantucket Adası”
  • Turkish: “Nantucket”
  • Ukrainian: “Нантакет, Массачусетс”
  • Ukrainian: “Нантакет”
  • Urdu: “نینٹوکیٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “đảo Nantucket”
  • Vietnamese: “Nantucket”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Nantucket, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Nantucket”
  • Volapük: “Nantucket”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nantucket, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nantucket”
  • Welsh: “Nantucket”
  • Yakut: “Нантакет”

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