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href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Shawmut_Peninsula&params=42_21_28_N_71_03_34_W_region:US-MA_type:landmark_source:dewiki"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">42°21′28″N</span> <span class="longitude">71°03′34″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">42.35778°N 71.05944°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">42.35778; -71.05944</span></span></span></a></span></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Peninsula that Boston, Massachusetts, is built upon</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Oldandnewboston.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Oldandnewboston.jpg/222px-Oldandnewboston.jpg" decoding="async" width="222" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Oldandnewboston.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="291" data-file-height="410" /></a><figcaption>This diagram shows the original dimension of the Shawmut Peninsula. The gray areas marked with the words "New Boston" are all <a href="/wiki/Land_reclamation" title="Land reclamation">land reclaimed</a> during the 19th century.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boston,_1775bsmall1.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Boston%2C_1775bsmall1.png/222px-Boston%2C_1775bsmall1.png" decoding="async" width="222" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Boston%2C_1775bsmall1.png/333px-Boston%2C_1775bsmall1.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Boston%2C_1775bsmall1.png/444px-Boston%2C_1775bsmall1.png 2x" data-file-width="2480" data-file-height="3500" /></a><figcaption>Map of Shawmut Peninsula from 1775 showing tactical positions from the perspective of the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Shawmut Peninsula</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Promontory" title="Promontory">promontory</a> of land on which <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> was built. The <a href="/wiki/Peninsula" title="Peninsula">peninsula</a>, originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km<sup>2</sup>) in area,<sup id="cite_ref-miller_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> more than doubled in size due to <a href="/wiki/Land_reclamation" title="Land reclamation">land reclamation</a> efforts that were a feature of the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Boston" title="History of Boston">history of Boston</a> throughout the 19th century. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geology_and_original_topography">Geology and original topography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shawmut_Peninsula&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geology and original topography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like much of the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> landscape, the peninsula was shaped by <a href="/wiki/Glacial_erosion" class="mw-redirect" title="Glacial erosion">glacial erosion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Glacial_moraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Glacial moraine">moraine deposits</a> left by retreating glaciers at the end of the last <a href="/wiki/Ice_age" title="Ice age">ice age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-miller_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Europeans arrived, Shawmut was thickly forested.<sup id="cite_ref-miller_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-miller-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pre-settlement topography of the peninsula was marked by three hills: Copps Hill, in what is now the <a href="/wiki/North_End,_Boston" title="North End, Boston">North End</a>; Fort Hill, in today's <a href="/wiki/Financial_District,_Boston" title="Financial District, Boston">Financial District</a>; and the Trimountain, today's <a href="/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Boston" title="Beacon Hill, Boston">Beacon Hill</a> district. Of the three hills, the Trimountain was by far the largest, a steep-sided mass with three summits. Its name was eventually shortened to Tremont. To the south was a narrow <a href="/wiki/Isthmus" title="Isthmus">isthmus</a> named <a href="/wiki/Boston_Neck" title="Boston Neck">Boston Neck</a> that connected the peninsula to the mainland site of <a href="/wiki/Roxbury,_Boston" title="Roxbury, Boston">Roxbury</a>, now a neighborhood of Boston.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English_settlement">English settlement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shawmut_Peninsula&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: English settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name is derived from <i><a href="/wiki/Shawmut" title="Shawmut">Mashauwomuk</a></i>, an <a href="/wiki/Algonquian_languages" title="Algonquian languages">Algonquian</a> word of uncertain meaning. The first recorded use of "Shawmutt" to describe the peninsula occurs in 1630, by the lone settler <a href="/wiki/William_Blaxton" title="William Blaxton">William Blackstone</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in an invitation to <a href="/wiki/John_Winthrop" title="John Winthrop">John Winthrop</a> to move the site of Winthrop's colonial settlement to the peninsula from what is now <a href="/wiki/Charlestown,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlestown, Massachusetts">Charlestown</a>. The Charlestown peninsula lacked a source of fresh water, while the Shawmut peninsula had an "excellent spring" on the north side of what is now <a href="/wiki/Beacon_Hill,_Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts">Beacon Hill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Land_reclamation">Land reclamation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shawmut_Peninsula&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Land reclamation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reclamation projects began in 1820 and continued intermittently until 1900 and created the Boston neighborhoods of the <a href="/wiki/South_End,_Boston" title="South End, Boston">South End</a>, <a href="/wiki/Back_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Back Bay">Back Bay</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fenway-Kenmore" class="mw-redirect" title="Fenway-Kenmore">Fenway-Kenmore</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Back_Bay_Fens" title="Back Bay Fens">Back Bay Fens</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Freshwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Freshwater">freshwater</a> <a href="/wiki/Urban_wild" title="Urban wild">urban wild</a> in the latter area, is a remnant of the <a href="/wiki/Salt_marsh" title="Salt marsh">salt marshes</a> that once surrounded Shawmut Peninsula. </p><p>Although this project eliminated the <a href="/wiki/Wetland" title="Wetland">wetland</a> <a href="/wiki/Ecosystem" title="Ecosystem">ecosystem</a> that existed there at the time and would be impossible under modern <a href="/wiki/Environmental_regulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental regulation">environmental regulations</a>, it was considered a great boon to the community for two reasons. Firstly, it eliminated the foul-smelling <a href="/wiki/Tidal_flat" class="mw-redirect" title="Tidal flat">tidal flats</a> that had become <a href="/wiki/Pollution" title="Pollution">polluted</a> with <a href="/wiki/Sewage" title="Sewage">sewage</a>. Secondly, it created what is now some of the most valuable real estate in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shawmut_Peninsula&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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and their Meaning</i>, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, MA, University Press, 1886.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., <i>A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston</i>, printed by request of Boston City Council, Boston, 1871.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shawmut_Peninsula&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theshawmutproject.org/">The Shawmut Project: The story of the place we now call Boston</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output 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of <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Island" title="Island">Islands</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abnecotants_Island" title="Abnecotants Island">Abnecotants Island</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Adams_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Adams Island (Massachusetts)">Adams Island</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amrita_Island" title="Amrita Island">Amrita Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angelica_Rock" title="Angelica Rock">Angelica Rock</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apple_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Apple Island (Massachusetts)">Apple Island</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Averills_Island_(Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Averills Island (Massachusetts)">Averills Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bachelor_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Bachelor Island">Bachelor Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bakers_Island" title="Bakers Island">Bakers Island</a></li> <li>Bar Rock (Scituate)</li> <li>Baret Island</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Island" title="Barton Island">Barton Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassetts_Island" title="Bassetts Island">Bassetts Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bates_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Bates Island (Massachusetts)">Bates Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaver_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Beaver Island (Massachusetts)">Beaver Island</a></li> <li>Big Pine Island</li> <li>Big Quamino Rock</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billingsgate_Island" title="Billingsgate Island">Billingsgate Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bird_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Bird Island (Massachusetts)">Bird Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Rock_(Bristol_County,_Massachusetts)" title="Black Rock (Bristol County, Massachusetts)">Black Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blueberry_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Blueberry Island (Massachusetts)">Blueberry Island</a></li> <li>Boston Ledge</li> <li>Brant Island</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_Bluff-Brant_Rock,_Massachusetts" title="Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Massachusetts">Brant Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bumpkin_Island" title="Bumpkin Island">Bumpkin Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Busta_Rhymes_Island" title="Busta Rhymes Island">Busta Rhymes Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Button_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Button Island (Massachusetts)">Button Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calf_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Calf Island (Massachusetts)">Calf Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrick_Island_(Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrick Island (Massachusetts)">Carrick Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle_Rock_(Massachusetts)" title="Castle Rock (Massachusetts)">Castle Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cemetery_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Cemetery Island (Massachusetts)">Cemetery Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chappaquiddick_Island" title="Chappaquiddick Island">Chappaquiddick Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Children%27s_Island" title="Children's Island">Children's Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Childs_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Childs Island (Massachusetts)">Childs Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choate_Island" title="Choate Island">Choate Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chubb_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Chubb Island (Massachusetts)">Chubb Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Clark Island (Massachusetts)">Clark Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark%27s_Island" title="Clark's Island">Clark's Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Cleveland Island (Massachusetts)">Cleveland Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cobble_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Cobble Island (Massachusetts)">Cobble Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coney_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Coney Island (Massachusetts)">Coney Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_Island" title="Conspiracy Island">Conspiracy Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cormorant_Rock_(Essex_County,_Massachusetts)" title="Cormorant Rock (Essex County, Massachusetts)">Cormorant Rock (Marblehead)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corn_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Corn Island (Massachusetts)">Corn Island</a></li> <li>Cove Ledge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crow_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Crow Island (Massachusetts)">Crow Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crowninshield_Island" title="Crowninshield Island">Crowninshield Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuttyhunk_Island" title="Cuttyhunk Island">Cuttyhunk Island</a></li> <li>Decatur Rock</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deer_Island_(Amesbury,_Massachusetts)" title="Deer Island (Amesbury, Massachusetts)">Deer Island (Amesbury)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dole_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Dole Island (Massachusetts)">Dole Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egg_Rock" title="Egg Rock">Egg Rock (Concord)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egg_Rock_(Nahant_Bay)" title="Egg Rock (Nahant Bay)">Egg Rock (Nahant)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Islands" title="Elizabeth Islands">Elizabeth Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Fish Island (Massachusetts)">Fish Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gallops_Island" title="Gallops Island">Gallops Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Georges Island (Massachusetts)">Georges Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gooseberry_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Gooseberry Island (Massachusetts)">Gooseberry Island</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Governors_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Governors Island (Massachusetts)">Governors Island</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Island_(Massachusetts)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Island (Massachusetts)">Grand Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grape_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Grape Island (Massachusetts)">Grape Island (Weymouth)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grape_Island_(Essex_County,_Massachusetts)" title="Grape Island (Essex County, Massachusetts)">Grape Island (Ipswich)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Brewster_Island" title="Great Brewster Island">Great Brewster Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Green Island (Massachusetts)">Green Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gull_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Gull Island (Massachusetts)">Gull Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hales_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Hales Island (Massachusetts)">Hales Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hangman_Island" title="Hangman Island">Hangman Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holy_Island,_Massachusetts" title="Holy Island, Massachusetts">Holy Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="House Island (Massachusetts)">House Island</a></li> <li><a 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Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nahant,_Massachusetts" title="Nahant, Massachusetts">Nahant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nantucket,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Nantucket, Massachusetts">Nantucket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nashawena_Island" title="Nashawena Island">Nashawena Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naushon_Island" title="Naushon Island">Naushon Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixes_Mate" title="Nixes Mate">Nixes Mate</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Noddle%27s_Island" title="Noddle's Island">Noddle's Island</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nomans_Land_(Massachusetts)" title="Nomans Land (Massachusetts)">Nomans Land</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonamesset_Island" title="Nonamesset Island">Nonamesset Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nut_Island" title="Nut Island">Nut Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onset_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Onset Island (Massachusetts)">Onset Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outer_Brewster_Island" title="Outer Brewster Island">Outer Brewster Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pasque_Island" title="Pasque Island">Pasque Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peddocks_Island" title="Peddocks Island">Peddocks Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penikese_Island" title="Penikese Island">Penikese Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plum_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Plum Island (Massachusetts)">Plum Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popponesset_Island,_Massachusetts" title="Popponesset Island, Massachusetts">Popponesset Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Popponesset_Spit" title="Popponesset Spit">Popponesset Spit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raccoon_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Raccoon Island (Massachusetts)">Raccoon Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ragged_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Ragged Island (Massachusetts)">Ragged Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainsford_Island" title="Rainsford Island">Rainsford Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sampsons_Island" title="Sampsons Island">Sampsons Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Sarah Island (Massachusetts)">Sarah Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shag_Rocks_(Massachusetts)" title="Shag Rocks (Massachusetts)">Shag Rocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slate_Island" title="Slate Island">Slate Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snake_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Snake Island (Massachusetts)">Snake Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectacle_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Spectacle Island (Massachusetts)">Spectacle Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spinnaker_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Spinnaker Island (Massachusetts)">Spinnaker Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stall_Hill_Island" title="Stall Hill Island">Stall Hill Island</a></li> <li>Tewksbury Rock</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thacher_Island" title="Thacher Island">Thacher Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Graves_(Massachusetts)" title="The Graves (Massachusetts)">The Graves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thompson_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="Thompson Island (Massachusetts)">Thompson Island</a></li> <li>Three and One-half Fathom Ledge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinker%27s_Island" title="Tinker's Island">Tinker's Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuckernuck_Island" title="Tuckernuck Island">Tuckernuck Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncatena_Island" title="Uncatena Island">Uncatena Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veckatimest_Island" title="Veckatimest Island">Veckatimest Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washburn_Island,_Massachusetts" title="Washburn Island, Massachusetts">Washburn Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weepecket_Islands" title="Weepecket Islands">Weepecket Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Island_(Massachusetts)" title="West Island (Massachusetts)">West Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wickets_Island" title="Wickets Island">Wickets Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winter_Island" title="Winter Island">Winter Island</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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