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Star Island is one of the Isles of Shoals that straddle the border between New Hampshire and Maine, approximately 7 miles (11 km) from the mainland. It is the largest of the four islands that are located in New Hampshire at 38 acres (15 ha) [ 1 ] and the second largest overall, after Appledore Island .
The first recorded landfall of an Englishman was that of explorer Captain Christopher Levett, whose 300 fishermen in six ships discovered that the Isles of Shoals were largely abandoned in 1623. [3] "The first place I set my foot upon in New England was the Isle of Shoals, being islands in the sea about two leagues from the main," Levett wrote ...
English: Captain John Smith's Monument, Star Island, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire; from a c. 1914 postcard. It was built in 1864 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Smith's visit to what he named Smith's Isles, and in subsequent years argued would make a perfect place to establish a colony devoted to fishing.
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Smuttynose Island (formerly "Smutty-nose") is a 27-acre island [1] in the Isles of Shoals, a group of small islands and tidal ledges located 6 miles (10 km) off the coast of New Hampshire and 7 miles (11 km) off the coast of Maine, United States.
Appledore Island is the largest of the Isles of Shoals archipelago, a group of rocky islands just offshore of the coastline of Maine and New Hampshire. The laboratory is cooperatively operated and maintained by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire .
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