Great Duck Island Light Station
Great Duck Island Light Station is a lighthouse, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Pemetic Mountain stands 380 m to the north, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Alan E. Hutchinson Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 4.6 miles away. ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY passes 11 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
How to reach it
- 10.8 mi off the ACADIA SCENIC BYWAY
- 16.5 mi off the SCHOODIC NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAY, National
Overlooks nearby
- Old Soaker Overlook · 13 mi
- Beehive Overlook · 13 mi
- Schooner Head Overlook Parking Lot Accessibility Information · 14 mi
- Sunset view · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Alan E. Hutchinson Wildlife Management Area: 4.6 mi
- Black Island Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Frenchboro Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Great Gott Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Cranberry Shores Preserve: 6.6 mi
- Bunker Head: 6.5 mi
- Bulger Hill: 6.7 mi
- Dolly Hill: 6.7 mi
- Bulger Hill: 6.7 mi
- Great Head: 7.4 mi
- Bass Harbor Light Station: 7.2 mi
- Fire Ponds: 7.7 mi
- Hadlock Park: 7.8 mi
- Mill Pond Park: 9.6 mi
- Hockamock Head Lighthouse Park: 10.1 mi
- Eastern Beach: 5.2 mi
- Whale Beach: 5.8 mi
- Middle Beach: 6.6 mi
- Big Beach: 6.6 mi
- Little Beach: 6.7 mi
- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden: 10.8 mi
- Roadside: 15.3 mi
- Mixed Woods: 15.3 mi
- Meadow: 15.3 mi
- Mixed Woods: 15.3 mi
- High Head: 7.2 mi
- Pierce Head: 10.1 mi
- Rhodes Cliff: 10.2 mi
- Schoolhouse Ledge: 11.3 mi
- The Cleft: 11.4 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light Station: 7.1 mi
- Store Foundation: 9.5 mi
- House Foundation: 9.6 mi
- Barn Foundation: 9.7 mi
- Sarah Smith Foundation: 9.8 mi
- Preble-Marr Historical Museum: 7.7 mi
- Islesford Historical Museum: 8.3 mi
- La petite Plaisance: 10.4 mi
- Wendell Gilley Museum: 10.6 mi
- Seal Cove Auto Museum: 13.7 mi
- Bell House: 7.1 mi
- Bass Harbor Head Light: 7.1 mi
- Keeper's House: 7.1 mi
- Oil House: 7.2 mi
- Baker Island Light: 7.2 mi
- High Hopes Lobster Boat: 7.7 mi
- Otter Cliffs Rock Climbing: 12.1 mi
- Thunder Hole: 12.7 mi
- The Bubble: 13.6 mi
- Schoodic Point: 16.0 mi
- Jesuit Spring: 11.3 mi
- Lurvey Spring: 12.0 mi
- Birch Spring: 12.9 mi
- Maple Spring: 13.6 mi
- Fern Spring: 14.3 mi
- Man O War Waterfall: 12.6 mi
- Hadlock Falls: 13.2 mi
- Duck Brook Waterfall: 17.2 mi
- Acadia National Park Picnic Area: 15.3 mi
- Thompson Island Picnic Area: 20.5 mi
- Baxter The Lobster: 17.2 mi
- Cathedral Rock: 20.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Great Duck Island Light Station. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pemetic Mountain | N 0° | 380 m | 13.3 mi |
| Penobscot Mountain | N 356° | 360 m | 13.2 mi |
| Bernard Mountain | NNW 331° | 326 m | 12.7 mi |
| Dike Peak | N 4° | 321 m | 13.4 mi |
| Gilmore Peak | N 353° | 316 m | 13.7 mi |
| Bald Peak | N 352° | 297 m | 13.5 mi |
| Mansell Mountain | NNW 333° | 289 m | 12.7 mi |
| Parkman Mountain | N 352° | 287 m | 13.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:37 | 18:07 | 18:45 |
| June solstice | 04:50 | 19:36 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:21 | 17:54 | 18:32 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:10 | 15:58 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 24 | 26 | 33 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Acadia NP, 16 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Bass Harbor, ME, 9 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/177335040
Day trips start here
- Acadia National Park · 7 mi
- Surry · 28 mi
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