Nantucket's nickname, 'The Little Grey Lady of the Sea', refers to the island as it appears from the ocean when it is fog-bound. The Nehantucket (known to Europeans as the Niantic) were an Algonquin-speaking people of the area. Wampanoag is an Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England. The meaning of the term is uncertain, although according to the Encyclopædia Britannica it may have meant 'far away island' or 'sandy, sterile soil tempting no one'. Nantucket probably takes its name from a Wampanoag word, transliterated variously as natocke, nantaticu, nantican, nautica or natockete, which is part of Wampanoag lore about the creation of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Nantucket is accessible by boat, ferry, or airplane.ġ870s street scene on Nantucket Etymology The National Park Service cites Nantucket, designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1966, as being the 'finest surviving architectural and environmental example of a late 18th- and early 19th-century New England seaport town.'

The average sale price for a single-family home was $2.3 million in the first quarter of 2018. Due to tourists and seasonal residents, the population of the island increases to around 80,000 during the summer months. Nantucket is a tourist destination and summer colony. The name 'Nantucket' is adapted from similar Algonquian names for the island, but is very similar to the endonym of the native Nehantucket tribe that occupied the region at the time of European settlement. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in Massachusetts, a U.S. Nantucket ( / ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t/) is an island about 30 miles (50 km) south from Cape Cod.

Nightbirds on nantucket