HU-16 Albatross

HU-16 Albatross is a monument in Town of Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. HU-16 Albatross is situated nearby to the government office Coast Guard Base Cape Cod, as well as near Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod and Cleveland Island.

Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod

Government office

Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located at Otis Air National Guard Base in Mashpee, Massachusetts and serves the Northeast U.S. from Canada to New York It was established in 1970. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod is situated 860 feet east of HU-16 Albatross.

Cleveland Island

Island

Cleveland Island is a small heavily forested island located in Wakeby Pond in Mashpee, Massachusetts. It once belonged to president Grover Cleveland. Cleveland once said that Daniel Webster caught a trout near the island, and then "talked mighty strong and fine to that fish and told him what a mistake he had made, and that he would have been all right if he had left the bait alone. Cleveland Island is situated 2½ miles east of HU-16 Albatross.

Camp Edwards

Military installation

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Camp Edwards is a United States military training installation located in western Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It was named after Major General Clarence Edwards, commander of the 26th Division in World War I. Camp Edwards is situated 2 miles west of HU-16 Albatross.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Forestdale and Mashpee.

Forestdale

Hamlet

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Forestdale is a village and census-designated place within the town of Sandwich in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, Forestdale had a population of 4,116. Forestdale is situated 2½ miles northeast of HU-16 Albatross.

Mashpee

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mashpee is in Massachusetts on Cape Cod. It includes the village of New Seabury. Purchased in 1660 to be a reservation for the Wampanoag tribe and later revoked and incorporated as a town. Until the 1960s, Wampanoags made up the majority of the population.

Hatchville

Hamlet

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hatchville is a neighborhood within the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, United States. The mailing address for the area is East Falmouth, to the south of Hatchville. Hatchville is situated 3 miles southwest of HU-16 Albatross.

HU-16 Albatross

Type: Monument
Category: historic site
Location: Town of Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.66484° or 41° 39′ 53″ north

Longitude

-70.52617° or 70° 31′ 34″ west

Open location code

87HFMF7F+WG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 632582447

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

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