Fun Facts about Nantucket:

  • John Cusack’s classic ‘One Crazy Summer’ took place on Nantucket.
  • The year round population of Nantucket is approximately 10,000 residents and balloons to 56,000 people at the peak of summer.
  • There is a harpoon in the Whaling Museum that was removed from a sperm whale caught twice by the same man - nine years apart.
  • Nantucket is translated as "far away land" in the Wampanoag dialect.

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