Franklin Island National Wildlife Refuge - Rockport National And State Park

P.O. Box 495
Rockport, ME 04856, U.S.A.

Located about six miles from the town of Friendship in Muscongus Bay, this 12-acre island offers safe refuge to nesting gulls, eiders, black-crowned night herons, Leach's storm petrels, and ospreys. The U.S. Government acquired Franklin Island in 1806 and completed ... more on L.L.Bean
Seal Island, situated 21 miles off the coast of Rockland in midcoast Maine, was once home to the largest Atlantic puffin colony in the Gulf of Maine. For more than 200 years, it was also a summer campsite for fishermen harvesting herring, ground fish, and lobster from the sea. The fishermen also used their nets to harvest the nesting seabirds for meat, eggs, and feathers, which led to the demise of the puffin colony by 1887. The island was also battered during the mid-20th century, when the U.S. Navy used it as a bombing target ... more on L.L.Bean

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