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The Nantucket Whaling Museum

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The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) has reopened the Whaling Museum, with free admission.

The museum's interpretive programming includes :

The NHA's mission is to preserve and interpret the history of Nantucket.

  • The Essex Gam, which retells the tragedy of the whaleship Essex, stove by a whale in 1820 in the Pacific Ocean, and
  • The Hunt, exploring what it was like to live aboard a whaleship and hunt for whales in the 19th century.


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    Nantucket

    Nantucket is an island measuring 14 miles long and 3½ miles wide, some 27 miles off Cape Cod's south coast in Massachusetts.

    Its long and illustrious history is such that the National Park Service designated the entire island a National Historic District in 1975.

    Nantucket's location offshore from the New England mainland also gives the island a unique weather pattern via the warm Gulf Stream and the cooler Labrador Current in the Atlantic.

    As a result, winters are more temperate than on the mainland with summers cooler.

    The island does however attract thick fogs, which can blanket the island in a soft grey mist and accounts for its affectionate name of the Grey Lady.

    Visitors to the island, and there are very, very many during the high season, will find the town of Nantucket a time locked delight.

    Travel just a little further and there are quiet harbours, cliff backed sandy beaches and a network of cycle paths.

    See also : AllWays Traveller to Nantucket : http://allways.williamjack.e-kei.pl/continents/america-n/an-enduring-love-of-nantucket-the-grey-lady

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