Norman's Woe

Norman's Woe is a rock reef on Cape Ann in Gloucester, Massachusetts. It has been the site of a number of ship wrecks. In fiction, it is the site of "The Wreck of the Hesperus", a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.^[1]

Its maximum elevation is 7 meters (23 feet), but much of the reef is awash at high tide, and this may have contributed to the number of wrecks attributed to it.

Coordinates: 42°34′35″N 70°41′58″W / 42.57639°N 70.69944°W / 42.57639; -70.69944^[2]

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