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Big and Little Tancook Islands

A colour aerial photo of Big and Little Tancook Islands with Big Tancook in the foreground showing the houses and roads; Little Tancook to the left showing roads and houses and to the far left Ironbound Island. The Tancook boat builders were noted designers of schooners and whalers. The fishermen were some of the first to use the make and and break engines to power their boats.

Chester Municipal Heritage Society

An aerial picture showing Big and Little Tancook Islands surrounded by the waters of Mahone Bay and in the background East Ironbound Island.

The picture shows Big and Little Tancook Islands, approximately 5 kilometers from Chester, where many of the early fishing schooners and whalers were designed and built for use in the in-shore Atlantic fishery.