Whitehead Island

Whitehead Island is an island in St. George, Knox County, Maine. Whitehead Light was built on the island in 1807.^[1] The island is approximately 70 acres (28 ha) in area and is known for "bleached, rugged granite shores". It is one of the foggiest places on the Maine coast, averaging 80 days of fog a year.^[2] Whitehead Lifesaving Station, a property on the National Register of Historic Places is also located on the island.

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Islands of Maine

Cumberland	Bailey Bustins Chebeague Cliff Cousins Cow Cushing Dingley Eagle Frye Great Diamond Hog Hope House Jewell Mackworth Little Diamond Littlejohn Long Orr's Peaks Ragged Sebascodegan

Hancock	Bar Island Cranberry Isles Baker Bear Great Cranberry Little Cranberry Sutton Deer Isle Eagle Great Duck Great Spruce Head Little Deer Long Mount Desert Nautilus Spectacle Swan's Verona

Knox	Allen Criehaven Curtis Eastern Egg Rock Franklin Isle au Haut Lane's Matinicus Metinic North Haven Seal Two Bush Vinalhaven Whitehead

Lincoln	Burnt the Cuckolds Damariscove Hog Louds Manana Monhegan Squirrel Westport Witch

Piscataquis	Gero Sugar

Sagadahoc	Arrowsic Harbor Malaga Pond

Waldo	Islesboro Sears Warren

Washington	Birch Islands Cross Great Wass Machias Seal Moose North Rock Saint Croix

York	Badger's Boon Seavey's Isles of Shoals Appledore Smuttynose

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