Great Duck Island Light

Great Duck Island Light stands on the southern tip of Great Duck Island in the Gulf of Maine, marking the approach to Blue Hill Bay and the southern approaches to Mount Desert Island. Established in 1890 and still maintained as an active aid to navigation by the United States Coast Guard, the station preserves five historic buildings on part of a larger former complex. These include the brick lighthouse tower, fog signal building, oil house, and the only surviving keeper’s house. Upgraded in 1902 and automated in 1986, the site later passed to the College of the Atlantic, which now uses the former keeper’s house for bird research.

Frenchboro, Maine · United States