Island
Island is a nature reserve in Town of Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. Island is situated nearby to the locality Old Crane Cranberry Bog, as well as near Bass Rock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandy Point State Reservation and Ipswich station.
Sandy Point State Reservation
Protected area
Photo: Botteville, Public domain.
Sandy Point State Reservation is a coastal Massachusetts state park located in the town of Ipswich at the southern tip of Plum Island. The reservation is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is an important nesting area for the piping plover and the least tern.
Ipswich station
Railway station
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ipswich station is an MBTA Commuter Rail station in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Located in downtown Ipswich, it serves the Newburyport/Rockport Line. The station is accessible, with a mini-high platform on the northern end of the platform.
Grape Island
Island
Grape Island, sometimes known as Grape Island, Ipswich, is a part of Plum Island, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in the United States. For nearly two centuries, Grape Island was a small, but thriving community of fishermen, farmers, and clam diggers, until the land was purchased by the US Government and turned into a wildlife refuge in the middle of the 20th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ipswich and Hamilton.
Ipswich
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Ipswich is a seaside town of 14,000 people in Massachusetts. Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich includes the southern part of Plum Island.
Hamilton
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Hamilton is a North Shore city in Massachusetts with a population of about 7,500 in 2020. Hamilton is closely tied to its sister town, Wenham, sharing a school system, library, recreation department and commuter rail station.
Essex
Photo: GMushinsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essex is a town in on Cape Ann in the North Shore region of Massachusetts. Settled by direct descendants of the Mayflower passengers in the early 1600s, it was later world-renowned as North America's fishing schooner construction center.
Island
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Town of Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.69° or 42° 41′ 24″ northLongitude
-70.8064° or 70° 48′ 23″ westOpen location code
87JFM5RV+2FOpenStreetMap ID
way 29690916OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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