Hope Island (Maine)

Luckse Sound is a sound in Casco Bay, Maine, United States. Located between Long Island and Cliff Island, it is one of the deepest channels which separate inner Casco Bay from its outlying waters in the Gulf of Maine, after Portland Channel, Hussey Sound and Broad Sound.Ships were torpedoed in the sound during World War II.Today, the Casco Bay Mailboat passes through the sound.

Cliff Island is an island in Casco Bay, Maine, United States. It is part of the city of Portland. As of the 2000 census, the island had a year-round population of approximately 60 people. In the summer, the island's population grows to about 200, despite the fact that it is the only year-round inhabited island in Casco Bay with no paved roads. The ZIP Code for Cliff Island is 04019.In the early 20th century, the island's inns were a draw for summer tourists. There are no longer any hotels, but many homes are available for weekly rentals or longer. While there are no public services, residents enjoy a community hall, a tennis court, baseball field, and playground. The residents are served by a USPS Post Office, fire department, and one-room school for elementary grades. While the postal service has considered closing the office in the past, the islanders have managed to keep it in operation for six hours a day.

Little Chebeague Island is an uninhabited island in Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine, United States. It is located around 0.85 miles (1.37 km) west of the southern tip of the larger Great Chebeague Island. As its name implies, the two are connected—by a sand bar which appears at low tide.The island, which was the home of the Wabanaki people, is co-managed by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) and the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA) as an undeveloped park where picnicking, camping and swimming are permitted.Being that there are many fresh-water underground springs and rivulets, low-tide exposed sandy areas, such as the sandbar or coves, often have "quicksand" zones that must be noted with caution. The island, which is approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) long (east to west) and 0.40 miles (0.64 km) wide (north to south), with 86 acres (35 ha) of land, is mostly dense shrub and forest, having been allowed to grow wild between the end of World War II and the late 20th century. The island now contains around 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of hiking trails, which pass the remains of several former summer cottages.

Jewell Island is a small island in Casco Bay, Maine, United States. Approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) long from southwest to northeast, it is located off the coast of Cliff Island, approximately eight miles from downtown Portland. It is a state-owned island with a small but protected harbor as well as camping and walking paths. Jewell Island was part of the Harbor Defenses of Portland fort network. The island is part of the city of Portland. Jewell Island can be reached by private or charter boats. There is no ferry service to the island. The island is rich in legend—tales are told of Captain Kidd cruising its coast and hiding treasure. The World War II bunkers are said to be haunted by soldiers, and the beaches by bootleggers. Several accounts of ghostly encounters can be heard in local towns. During World War II, the island included the Jewell Island Military Reservation. Three coastal artillery gun batteries were constructed on the island. The largest, although never completed, was Battery Construction Number (BCN) 202. It was designed for two 6-inch guns in shielded mounts that would be on the large concrete circles at each end of the battery. Positions for two Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat (AMTB) batteries with 90 mm guns were also constructed on Jewell Island. Each battery was authorized four 90 mm guns, two on fixed mounts and two on towed mounts. The guns were dual-purpose, able to fire against air or surface targets. The batteries were designated AMTB 967 and AMTB 968. The World War II construction was part of a modernization of the Harbor Defenses of Portland, centered on Battery Steele on Peaks Island, which the fire control towers and SCR-296 radar on Jewell Island supported.

Chebeague Island is located in Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine. It was originally used as a fishing ground by Abenaki Native Americans. Also known as Great Chebeague (pronounced "sha-big") Island, today it is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is located 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Portland, Maine. Chebeague Island is the largest island in Casco Bay that is not connected to the mainland by a bridge. The largest island is Sebascodegan, or "Great Island," which is part of the Town of Harpswell and connected to the mainland via a 100ft bridge. Chebeague Island is one of the twelve major islands of the Calendar Islands, a term that originated in 1700 with the report by the English military engineer Wolfgang William Römer, who claimed there were "as many islands as there are days in the year." As a corrective, the Maine State Historian Robert M. York stated there are "little more than two hundred islands" in Casco Bay.Chebeague Island was a part of the Town of Cumberland until July 1, 2007, when it seceded and became the Town of Chebeague Island. The Town of Chebeague Island includes seventeen islands and their adjacent waters. These include the islands of Bangs, Bates, Hope, Ministerial, Sand, Stave, Stockman, and the tiny Upper Green Islands. At the 2020 census, the town's year-round population was 396. The population is said to more than triple in the summer months. Chebeague Island is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Great Chebeague Golf Club is a country club at 16 Stone Wharf Road on Chebeague Island, Maine. It has a nine-hole golf course on more than 28 acres (11 ha) on the north side of the island. Its clubhouse is a repurposed circa 1807 residence, which is probably one of the oldest buildings used for that purpose in the nation. The club was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

The Chebeague Island Inn is located on Chebeague Island, Maine, United States. Situated in 2.5 acres (0.0039 sq mi), on South Road, near the northern tip of the island, the inn overlooks part of Casco Bay. Just beyond the western edge of the inn's property, Stone Wharf Landing is where the Chebeague Island Ferry, which runs to and from Cousins Island, berths on the island. The inn also overlooks a few holes of the island's nine-hole golf course. The inn, which has twenty-six rooms, was built in the 1880s, and was originally known as the Hillcrest Hotel. The inn burned down in the early 20th century and was rebuilt in the 1920s. It was given its current name in 2000, and was fully renovated in 2004. It is open between May and October.

Broad Sound is a passage north from Casco Bay through the islands northwest of Portland, Maine. It lies between Chebeague Island and Harpswell Neck.

Littlejohn Island is an island and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Yarmouth in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population of the CDP was 118 at the 2010 census.It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area. The island, Cousins River and Cousins Island are named after Englishman John Cousins (c. 1596–1682), who emigrated from Marlborough, Wiltshire.

Basket Island is an uninhabited Casco Bay island that is part of the town of Cumberland, Maine. Basket Island was among a number of Casco Bay islands owned by Arctic explorer Robert Peary, and is maintained today as a nature preserve that is open to the public for daytrips.

Junk of Pork is a small sea stack islet in Portland, Maine. It is located 4.5 miles offshore in outer Casco Bay, next to Outer Green Island, and is owned by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as part of the Alan E. Hutchinson (Coast of Maine) Wildlife Management Area. It is one of three Maine Islands of the same name.

Long Island is an island town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, which seceded from the city of Portland in 1993. The population was 234 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.