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nantucket's Usage Examples:

Nantucket was long famous as a whaling port.

Nantucket was the home of Benjamin Franklin's mother, Abiah, whose father, Peter Folger, was one of the earliest settlers (1663); of Maria Mitchell, and of Lucretia Mott.

Near the old Friends' School is the building of the Nantucket Historical Society, which has a collection of relics.

There are two libraries; one founded in 1836, and now a public library in the Atheneum building; and the other in what is now the School of Industrial and Manual Training (1904), founded in 1827 as a Lancasterian school by Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin (1759-1839), whose ancestors were Nantucket people.

The principal settlement and summer resort is the town of Nantucket (on the S.W.

end of the island; and Polpis, Quidnet and Wauwinet (at the head of Nantucket harbour) in its E.

extremity of Nantucket Island is Siasconset (locally 'Sconset), a summer resort of some vogue; it has a Marconi wireless telegraph station, connecting with incoming steamers, the Nantucket shoals lightship and the mainland.

The surface of Nantucket Island is open, nearly treeless, with a few hills, the highest being 91 ft.

m., has a coast-line of 88 m.; it lies within the ro-fathom line, but is separated from the mainland by Nantucket Sound, which is 25 to 30 m.

NANTUCKET, a county and township (coextensive) of Massachusetts, U.S.A. Its principal part is an island of the same name, 28 m.

nantucket's Meaning':

an island resort off Cape Cod; formerly a center of the whaling industry