West Quoddy Head Light was created in 1858.
West Quoddy Head is located near the town of Lubec, Maine and is the eastern most point of the contiguous 48 states.
West Quoddy Head, Maine
West Quoddy Head
West Quoddy Head in Lubec, Maine is the easternmost point of the United States and the closest point to Africa from a point in the fifty States
West Quoddy Head, Me., is the easternmost point, located 2,507 miles from the geographic center of the United States
West Quoddy Head Light Station, Lubec, Maine . . . 66.950° west longitude Cape Flattery Light, Tatoosh Island, Neah Bay, Washington . . . 124.744° west longitude. Range . . . 57.794° coast-to-coast
Sail Rock just offshore of West Quoddy Head Maine.
It shines first in the U.S.A. in Maine,West Quoddy Head.
The easternmost point in the state of Maine appears to be in Quoddy Head State Park,located at a longitude of about 66°57' west ... less than 2° west of Bermuda !
Most of the US is located in the western hemisphere. The easternmost point of the US is in West Quoddy Head, Maine.
The easternmost point in Maine is West Quoddy Head in Lubec. This area typically experiences the earliest sunrise in the state due to its location further east.
Alaska. Semisopochnoi Island, in the Aleutian chain of islands, is at 179 degrees 46 minutes east longitude, which is about as "east" as it can get. If we restrict ourselves to the Continental United States, then the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse near Luboc, Maine, is the easternmost point. (Pop Culture Note: West Quoddy Head Lighthouse was the fictional setting of the Walt Disney movie "Pete's Dragon". You may remember the song about "Passamaquoddy, Maine".)