islands in maine Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/islands-in-maine/ Maine Local Community Blog Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:22:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png islands in maine Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/islands-in-maine/ 32 32 Maine Loaded With Over 4600, Vinalhaven The Biggest Off Shore Island https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/growing-up-in-maine/maine-loaded-with-over-4600-vinalhaven-the-biggest-off-shore-island/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-loaded-with-over-4600-vinalhaven-the-biggest-off-shore-island Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:22:35 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18554 Vinalhaven Island in Penobscot Bay. Consider you have power half the time on a Maine island parked twelve to fifteen miles off the coast of Rockland in Knox County. Literally every six hours, one side of your island is energized. Then the next half dozen hours, where you live or work you are on own […]

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]]> Small Towns In Maine | How Do They Keep Their Doors Open? https://meinmaine.com/maine-small-towns/living-in-a-small-maine-town/small-towns-in-maine-how-do-they-keep-their-doors-open/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=small-towns-in-maine-how-do-they-keep-their-doors-open Mon, 27 May 2019 12:29:13 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=13323 Small towns in Maine. The northern rural New England state is known for its sparse population and wide open spaces. So how does a small town exist? Some of them don’t because keeping up with the paperwork to maintain the local identity is slipping. Once Grange halls, local schools, the mill, and one by one farmers or […]

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]]> How Many Islands In Maine, Give Or Take A Few? https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/how-many-islands-in-maine-give-or-take-a-few/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-many-islands-in-maine-give-or-take-a-few https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/how-many-islands-in-maine-give-or-take-a-few/#respond Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:53:42 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=1867 If your rough guess was 4,613 islands along the Maine coast or a tidal waterways you are right, according to the Maine State Planning Office’s Maine Coastal Program. But there are even more lake, river islands not in that figure and will have to get back to you on exact number with those added in. […]

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]]> https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/how-many-islands-in-maine-give-or-take-a-few/feed/ 0 Maine’s Coast Line, Lakes, Rivers Have Over 3000 Islands To Explore, Live On. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/maines-coast-line-lakes-rivers-have-over-3000-islands-to-explore-live-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maines-coast-line-lakes-rivers-have-over-3000-islands-to-explore-live-on https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/maines-coast-line-lakes-rivers-have-over-3000-islands-to-explore-live-on/#respond Sun, 23 May 2010 11:27:42 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=1466 Islands in Maine are neat, no two ways about it. Along the Maine rugged, rock bound coast, islands make the landscape interesting, unique offering little remote places of solitude, a feeling of a country, a small nation surrounded by water all by itself. I’m not an expert on Maine islands and when you live in […]

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