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Nantucket Life-Saving Museum

The Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum of , is a small, seasonal, non-profit museum dedicated to the history of shipwrecks off the Nantucket coast and in Nantucket Sound.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Nantucket
  • Also known as: “Nantucket Life Saving Museum”, “Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum”, “nantucketshipwreck.org”, and “The Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum”
  • Address: 158 Polpis Road, Nantucket, MA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Brant Point Light and Nantucket Harbor Range Lights.

Lighthouse
Photo: Denimadept, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a lighthouse located on . 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. is situated 2½ miles west of Nantucket Life-Saving Museum.

Tower
The are range lights that were built in 1908 to guide vessels through the narrow channel to Nantucket Harbor. They replaced an older arrangement involving the Nantucket Beacon and the , which became unusable when the latter was replaced with a new tower. is situated 2½ miles west of Nantucket Life-Saving Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shawkemo and Polpis.

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 .

Hamlet
is a village in Nantucket, , United States. Its elevation is 7 feet. The different spellings of its name led the Board on Geographic Names to designate its official spelling in 1900. The community lies 3.5 miles northwest of . is situated 1½ miles east of Nantucket Life-Saving Museum.

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. is situated 3 miles west of Nantucket Life-Saving Museum.

Nantucket Life-Saving Museum

Latitude
41.29117° or 41° 17′ 28″ north
Longitude
-70.0448° or 70° 2′ 41″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Operator
Egan Maritime Institute
Open location code
87HF7XR4+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 213821089
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q14715744
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In Other Languages

“Nantucket Life-Saving Museum” goes by many names.
  • Turkish: “Nantucket Life-Saving Museum”
  • Turkish: “Nantucket Life-Saving Müzesi”

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Highlights include Polpis Road Bike Path Cr and University of Massachusetts Boston - Nantucket Field Station.

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