Wood Island
Wood Island is a nature reserve in Maine, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Tate Hill stands 109 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Ledgewood Preserve, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- The Nature Conservancy
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Ledgewood Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Morse Pond Preserve: 1.0 mi
- Josephine Newman Audubon Sanctuary: 1.9 mi
- Hendricks Head Preserve: 2.0 mi
- Higgins Mountain Preserve: 2.2 mi
- Higgins Mountain: 2.3 mi
- West Georgetown Hill: 3.2 mi
- Tarrs Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Hall Hill: 3.5 mi
- Knubble: 3.5 mi
- Church Park: 2.4 mi
- The Lookout Retreat: 3.8 mi
- Sheepscot Park: 3.9 mi
- Central Park: 4.0 mi
- Minneconcha Park: 4.1 mi
- Southport Civil War Monument: 2.2 mi
- Rachel Carson Memorial: 3.1 mi
- American Revolution Historical Site: 4.3 mi
- Fort Popham (historical): 5.0 mi
- Boothbay Harbor Fire Fighter Memorial: 5.2 mi
- Georgetown Historical Society: 2.1 mi
- NeKrangan II Museum: 4.2 mi
- Phippsburg Historical Museum: 4.6 mi
- Boothbay Region Historical Society: 5.5 mi
- Grand Banks Schooner Museum: 5.8 mi
- East Beach: 1.6 mi
- South Beach: 1.6 mi
- Cole Beach: 1.8 mi
- Hendricks Head Beach: 1.8 mi
- Mile Beach: 2.1 mi
- Wild Bird Petroglyph: 4.8 mi
- Cedar Waxwings Petroglyph: 4.8 mi
- Expanse: 5.1 mi
- Captain Brown: 5.1 mi
- Windsound: 5.2 mi
- Arbor Garden: 5.2 mi
- Balmy Days Cruises: 5.2 mi
- Cap'n Fish's Cruises: 5.2 mi
- Haney Hillside Garden: 5.2 mi
- Cap'n Fish's Cruises – Harbor Princess: 5.2 mi
- Squirrel Island Community Garden: 4.2 mi
- Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens: 5.2 mi
- Bath Community Garden: 7.5 mi
- Floratorium: 7.9 mi
- Sunken Garden: 8.6 mi
- Morse Point: 6.4 mi
- Hockomock Head: 6.6 mi
- Norton's Ledge: 20.3 mi
- Burnt Head: 20.4 mi
- The Bluff: 22.0 mi
- Doubling Point Front Range Light: 6.5 mi
- Doubling Point Rear Range Light: 6.6 mi
- First Falls: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.3 miles of Wood Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tate Hill | NW 313° | 109 m | 19.0 mi |
| Call Hill | N 358° | 105 m | 19.2 mi |
| Wheeler Hill | NW 321° | 89 m | 19.3 mi |
| Kenniston Hill | NE 42° | 87 m | 7.1 mi |
| Oak Hill | WNW 292° | 85 m | 17.3 mi |
| Mount Hunger | NNE 25° | 83 m | 12.6 mi |
| Fuller Mountain | W 274° | 81 m | 6.1 mi |
| Bald Rock | WNW 294° | 81 m | 18.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:43 | 18:13 | 18:51 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 19:41 | 20:25 |
| September equinox | 06:27 | 18:00 | 18:38 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 15:18 | 16:05 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 25 | 32 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 68 | 67 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 29 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westport Island, 6 mi away.
- European Green Crab40 obs
- Steller's Sea-Eagle39 obs
- Knotted Wrack36 obs
- rugosa rose31 obs
- Common Periwinkle30 obs
- Common Eider26 obs
- Black Guillemot24 obs
- Hairy Spiny Dorid21 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/829792992
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