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Originaly named by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold,"Marthas Vineyard" after his eldest daughter.The name for some reason was later transferred to the present Marthas Vineyard.In 1924 the islands owner discovered an alleged Viking runestone.The island was used by the US Navy as a bombing range from 1943 to 1996 and it is presumed to be covered in unexploded ordinance.It is closed to the general public and since 1998 has been an unstaffed wildlife refuge administered by the US Fish & Wildlife Service.
www.fws.gov/northeast/nomanslandisland/
www.fws.gov/northeast/nomanslandisland/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomans_Land_(Massachusetts)#_note-AirAf
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Coordinates: 41°15'25"N 70°49'1"W
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- Prudence Island 64 km
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- Fishers Island, New York 102 km
- Gardiner's Island 112 km
- Plum Island 174 km
- Isles of Shoals 195 km
- Squibnocket Pond 7.4 km
- Menemsha Pond 10 km
- Chilmark, Massachusetts 13 km
- Tisbury Great Pond 18 km
- West Tisbury, Massachusetts 18 km
- Quick's Hole 21 km
- Robinson's Hole 22 km
- Gosnold, Massachusetts 25 km
- Colonel William B. Cowin Wreckage 27 km
- Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary 33 km