Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. Located on Mount Desert Island, the population was 1,756 at the 2020 census. The municipality contains within it the villages of Southwest Harbor, Manset, Seawall, Wonderland, and Pemetic Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,760 residents
- Description: town in Hancock County, Maine, United States of America
- Also known as: “South West Harbor”, “Southwest Harbor, Maine”, and “Southwest Harbor, ME”
- Postal code: 04679
Places of Interest
Highlights include Southwest Harbor Public Library and Claremont Hotel.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Library
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The Southwest Harbor Public Library is the public library serving Southwest Harbor, Maine. The Southwest Harbor Public Library was built in 1895. On March 17, 1888 the Tremont Public Library Association was formed for the purpose of looking after books and raising funds for a permanent building.
Claremont Hotel
Hotel
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The Claremont Hotel is a historic hotel on Claremont Road in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Built in 1883, the main hotel building is one of the only 19th-century hotels to survive on Mount Desert Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northeast Harbor and Tremont.
Northeast Harbor
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Northeast Harbor is a village on Mount Desert Island, located in the town of Mount Desert in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The village has a significant summer population, and has long been a quiet enclave of the rich and famous.
Tremont
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Tremont is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It is located on the southwestern side of Mount Desert Island, an area commonly referred to by residents as the "quiet side." Tremont includes the villages of Bass Harbor, Bernard, Gotts Island, Seal Cove, and West Tremont.
Southwest Harbor
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Town of Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Down East, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.2798° or 44° 16′ 47″ northLongitude
-68.3259° or 68° 19′ 33″ westPopulation
1,760Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)United Nations Location Code
US W8SOpen location code
87PH7MHF+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 158810733OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Southwest Harbor” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Southwest Harbor”
- Catalan: “Southwest Harbor”
- Chechen: “Саутвест-Гарбор”
- Chinese: “西南港”
- Dutch: “Southwest Harbor”
- French: “Southwest Harbor”
- German: “Southwest Harbor”
- Haitian: “Southwest Harbor, Maine”
- Haitian: “Southwest Harbor”
- Hungarian: “Southwest Harbor”
- Italian: “Southwest Harbor”
- Japanese: “サウスウェスト・ハーバー”
- Kazakh: “Sowsvést Xarbor”
- Kazakh: “Соусвэст Харбор”
- Kazakh: “سوۋسۆەست حاربور”
- Kirghiz: “Соусвэст Харбор”
- Mazanderani: “ساوثوست هاربر”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Southwest Harbor”
- Norwegian: “Southwest Harbor”
- Persian: “هاربر جنوب غربی، مین”
- Persian: “هاربر جنوب غربی”
- Polish: “Southwest Harbor”
- Serbian: “Саутвест Харбор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Southwest Harbor, Maine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Southwest Harbor”
- South Azerbaijani: “سوتوزت هاربور، مئین”
- Spanish: “Southwest Harbor”
- Tatar: “Саутвест-Гарбор”
- Turkish: “Southwest Harbor”
- Ukrainian: “Саутвест-Гарбор”
- Volapük: “Southwest Harbor”
- Welsh: “Southwest Harbor, Maine”
- Welsh: “Southwest Harbor”
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