Cyber visitors can click from each island to its description below. Likely named for its migrant visiting birds. Today owned by Star Island Corporation and used as a wildlife refuge. Earlier this century the island and ledges were a restricted zone used by the government as bombing targets.
Duck is about one-seventh of a mile long and equally wide.
Surrounded by Jimmie's Ledge, Shag Rock, Eastern Rocks, Mingo Rock and closest to Old Henry Ledge. Site of shipwrecks. Originally Hog Island, the largest of the Isles. This was the most populated European settlement in the 1600s due to a freshwater spring. Appledore became a township in 1661 and named for a town in Devonshire.