Nantucket is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 30 miles (48.3 km) south of Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, in the United States

United States

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. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck

Tuckernuck Island

Tuckernuck is an island in the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts, west of Nantucket Island and east of Muskeget. Its name allegedly means "a loaf of bread". The island has an area of about 900 acres ....

 and Muskeget

Muskeget

Muskeget Island is a low sandy island to the west of Tuckernuck Island and Nantucket, in the town of Nantucket, Massachusetts.-Geography:Muskeget Island is part of the terminal moraine marking the maximum extent of the last glacial ice sheet to reach the northeastern coast. It has an area of . The...

, it constitutes the town

New England town

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 of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and the coterminous Nantucket County, which are consolidated. Part of the town is designated the Nantucket CDP

Nantucket (CDP), Massachusetts

Nantucket is a census-designated place in the town of Nantucket in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,830 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Nantucket is located at ....

, or census designated place. The region of Surfside on Nantucket is the southernmost settlement in Massachusetts.

Canopache, meaning "place of peace", is the Wampanoag

Wampanoag

The Wampanoag In the 1600s when encountered by the English, the Wampanoag lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as within a territory that encompassed current day Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket...

 Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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 name for the island.

Nantucket is a tourist

Tourism

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 destination and summer colony

Summer colony

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.