Manana Island (Maine)
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Manana Island is an island in Lincoln County
, Maine
, United States, lying adjacent to Monhegan
island, about 10 miles (16.1 km) off Pemaquid Point on the mainland.
It is the site of the Manana Island Sound Signal Station
, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
. Archeological sites on the island include a petroglyph
and a stone cairn
.
Lincoln County, Maine
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of 2010, the population was 34,457. Its county seat is Wiscasset. It was founded in 1760 and named after the English city Lincoln. At its founding, it accounted for three-fifths of the State's land, and stretched east to Nova...
, Maine
Maine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
, United States, lying adjacent to Monhegan
Monhegan, Maine
Monhegan is a plantation on an island of the same name in Lincoln County, Maine, United States, about off the coast. The population was 75 at the 2000 census. As a plantation, Monhegan's governmental status falls between township and town...
island, about 10 miles (16.1 km) off Pemaquid Point on the mainland.
It is the site of the Manana Island Sound Signal Station
Manana Island Sound Signal Station
Manana Island Sound Signal Station is a fog signal station on Manana Island, Maine, United States.It was first established in 1855. Although it is listed separately in the USCG Light List, it is effectively the fog signal for Monhegan Island Light, about one half nautical mile to the east.Manana...
, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
. Archeological sites on the island include a petroglyph
Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images...
and a stone cairn
Cairn
Cairn is a term used mainly in the English-speaking world for a man-made pile of stones. It comes from the or . Cairns are found all over the world in uplands, on moorland, on mountaintops, near waterways and on sea cliffs, and also in barren desert and tundra areas...
.