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Bear Island Lighthouse, Acadia National Park
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Bear Island Lighthouse

Islands & LighthousesBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 5, 2018

There has been a lighthouse since 1839 on Bear Island, smallest of the Cranberry Islands at the entrance to Northeast Harbor.

Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Acadia National Park
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Bass Harbor Head Light

Islands & LighthousesBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 5, 2018

The area’s only lighthouse actually on Mount Desert Island, the 32-foot Bass Harbor light was built in 1858 to guide mariners around the southwestern end of the island and in and out of Blue Hill Bay.

Bar Island in Bar Harbor, Maine
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Bar Island

Islands & LighthousesBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 5, 2018

Bar Harbor gets its name from the sand and gravel bar that blocks the western end of the harbor when it’s exposed for a few hours on either side of low tide.

Baker Island, Acadia National Park, Maine
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Baker Island Light

Islands & LighthousesBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 5, 2018

The southernmost of the Cranberry Islands, about four miles from Mount Desert Island, Baker was settled in the early 1800s by William and Hannah Gilley and their three children.

Porcupine Islands, Bar Harbor, Maine
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Porcupine Islands

Islands & LighthousesBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 5, 2018

Local legend says that the artists who visited Mount Desert Island beginning in the 1830s named these four islands in Frenchman Bay, just offshore from Bar Harbor.

Thompson Island, Acadia National Park
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Thompson Island

Islands & LighthousesBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 5, 2018

Visitors to Acadia National Park often don’t realize that when they drive off the mainland in Trenton, and out over the Mount Desert Narrows, they first cross another, smaller island before reaching Mount Desert Island.

Egg Rock Lighthouse, Bar Harbor, Maine
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Egg Rock

Islands & LighthousesBy visitacadiaadminSeptember 5, 2018

Egg Rock, at the entrance to Frenchman Bay, has been known as a home for seabirds since it received its name from French explorers in the late 1600s.

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