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Nantucket

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Nantucket

Resort island and county in southeast Massachusetts, USA, 40 km/25 mi south of Cape Cod across Nantucket Sound; population (2000 est) 9,500. Extending over 120 sq km/46 sq mi, its beaches have made it a popular summer vacation area. The island was explored by the English in 1602, settled in 1659 by Quaker and Presbyterian families, and became part of Massachusetts in 1692. In the 18th–19th centuries, Nantucket Town (incorporated in 1671) was a whaling port.

The island was purchased by Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard in 1659 from the local people for £30 and two beaver hats. It has four entries on the national register of historic places.



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Much was I disappointed upon learning that the little packet for Nantucket had already sailed, and that no way of reaching that place would offer, till the following Monday.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
The Pequod's signal was at last responded to by the stranger's setting her own; which proved the ship to be the Jeroboam of Nantucket.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
In the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti- slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative.
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