page_title: Great Duck Island, Maine
hierarchical_section_title: Great Duck Island, Maine
caption_attribution_description: English: Great Duck Island Light Station, At southern tip of Great Duck Island southeast of , Frenchboro vicinity (Hancock County, Maine) cropped This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports. When reusing please credit: Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, ME,5-FREN.V,1-2 This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. Object location44°&#160;08′&#160;32″&#160;N, 68°&#160;14′&#160;46″&#160;W&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: Great Duck Island is a small island in the Gulf of Maine, 11 miles south of the entrance to Frenchman Bay, not far from Acadia National Park. Along with nearby Little Duck Island and 11 others, it is part of the town of Frenchboro, Maine.
  According to The Nature Conservancy, the island provides habitat for the largest nesting black guillemot colony in Maine. Great Duck is an active site for ecological research, conducted by the College of the Atlantic at its Alice Eno Biological Station. Much of this research focuses on the nesting habits of Leach's storm-petrel.
context_section_description: Great Duck Island is a small island (1.5 miles (2.4 km) long by 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide) in the Gulf of Maine, 11 miles (18 km) south of the entrance to Frenchman Bay, not far from Acadia National Park.  Along with nearby Little Duck Island and 11 others, it is part of the town of Frenchboro, Maine.
  According to The Nature Conservancy, the island provides habitat for the largest nesting black guillemot colony in Maine. Great Duck is an active site for ecological research, conducted by the College of the Atlantic at its Alice Eno Biological Station.  Much of this research focuses on the nesting habits of Leach's storm-petrel.
caption: Great Duck Island Light Station
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