West Quoddy Head Light
West Quoddy Head, in Quoddy Head State Park, Lubec, Maine, is the easternmost point of the contiguous United States. In 1808 a lighthouse was constructed at the site to guide ships through the Quoddy Narrows.Photo: Dupes, Public domain.
- Type: Heritage site
- Description: lighthouse in Maine, United States
- Also known as: “West Quoddy Head Light Station” and “West Quoddy Head Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lubec Channel Light.
Lubec Channel Light
Lighthouse
Lubec Channel Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in Lubec, Maine. Established in 1890, it is one of three surviving sparkplug lights in the state, and served as an important aid to navigation on the route from the Bay of Fundy to Eastport, Maine and the St. Lubec Channel Light is situated 2½ miles northwest of West Quoddy Head Light.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lubec and Campobello Island.
Lubec
Photo: DrStew82, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lubec is a town in the Down East region of Maine along the coast. Lubec is the easternmost town in the United States of America.
Campobello Island
Photo: Leonora (Ellie) Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Campobello Island is an island in New Brunswick, Canada. The island has no road connection to the rest of Canada except to deer island with a ferry; though there is a bridge connecting it to nearby Lubec, Maine in the United States.
West Quoddy Head Light
- Categories: lighthouse, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Town of Lubec, Washington, Maine, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.81511° or 44° 48′ 54″ northLongitude
-66.95047° or 66° 57′ 2″ westInception
1858Height
49 feet (15 metres)Open location code
87PMR28X+2ROpenStreetMap ID
way 192130988OpenStreetMap feature
building=towerOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q845154
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“West Quoddy Head Light” goes by many names.
- Basque: “West Quoddy itsasargia”
- Dutch: “West Quoddy Head”
- French: “phare de West Quoddy Head”
- French: “Phare de West Quoddy Head”
- German: “West Quoddy Head”
- Portuguese: “West Quoddy Head”
- Russian: “Маяк мыса Вест Кводди”
- Russian: “Маяк Уэст-Кводди-Хед”
- Swedish: “West Quoddy Head”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include West Quoddy Head Light Station Visitors Center and West Quoddy Head Light Park.
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