Squirrel Island, Maine

Squirrel Island is an island in the Gulf of Maine and village within the town of Southport, Maine, United States. It was established as a summer community in 1871. The origin of the name is not related to its squirrel population, since according to island chronicler Charles McLane "[s]quirrels do not inhabit the island (or if they do now, they did not in early times according to local pundits),"^[1] but, rather, refers to the shape of the island which, when seen from above, resembles a squirrel holding an acorn.^{[citation needed]}