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Top 8 sights in Nantucket

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   Nantucket Airlines

   An airline with its headquarters at Cape Cod Gateway Airport in Hyannis in Massachusetts. It flies scheduled services with small aircraft in the northeastern United States, the Caribbean and eastern Montana.

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   Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge

   A refuge made up of the barrier islands of North Monomoy, South Monomoy and Minimoy off Chatham in Massachusetts, together with the Morris Island section on the mainland. The federal government took the land over just before the Second World War and designated it in 1944.

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   Nickerson State Park

   A state park of more than 1,900 acres at Brewster on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Several kettle ponds fed by groundwater and rain lie among the sandy ground and pitch pine, of which Cliff Pond is the largest.

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   SS Pendleton

   A T2 tanker built at Portland in Oregon in 1942 and sold to National Bulk Carriers in 1948. She broke in two in a storm in February 1952; T2 hulls were prone to cracking in cold weather, and the rescue of her crew became one of the most celebrated in Coast Guard history.

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   Nantucket Whaling Museum

   A whaling museum on Nantucket in Massachusetts. The Nantucket Historical Association runs it, and it is the principal of the association's properties.

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   Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge

   A nature reserve on Nantucket. It takes in several miles of beach, the largest stand of red cedar in New England, and the Great Point lighthouse; the land was bought in 1974.

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   Craigville Beach

   A beach on Nantucket Sound in Massachusetts. It is one of the busiest on Cape Cod and, unlike beaches where parking is reserved for residents, is public, with a daily parking charge open to anyone.

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   Flying Horses Carousel

   The oldest operating platform carousel in the United States, built in New York and moved to Oak Bluffs in the 1880s. Riders still grab for the brass ring as they pass, a survival from carousels almost everywhere else; it was made a National Historic Landmark in 1987.

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