Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge

Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
Chart of 1891
Map of the United States
Location	Washington County, Maine, United States
Nearest city	Machiasport, Maine
Coordinates	44°36′30″N 67°17′58″W / 44.60841°N 67.29943°W / 44.60841; -67.29943^[1]
Area	1,700 acres (6.9 km²)
Established	1980
Governing body	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Website	Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge

Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in the state of Maine. It is one of the five refuges that together make up the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, along with Petit Manan, Franklin Island, Seal Island, and Pond Island.

Cross Island NWR has a surface area of 1,700 acres (6.9 km²).^[2] It is part of the Town of Cutler.

Islands

Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge consists of six islands:

Cross Island - 1,489 acres (603 ha)
Scotch Island - 10 acres (4.0 ha)
Outer Double Head Shot - 14 acres (5.7 ha)
Inner Double Head Shot - 8 acres (3.2 ha)
Mink Island - 11 acres (4.5 ha)
Old Man Island - 6 acres (2.4 ha)

This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

National Parks and Historic Sites	Acadia National Park Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument Saint Croix Island International Historic Site
National Wildlife Refuges	Aroostook Carlton Pond Waterfowl Production Area Cross Island Franklin Island Maine Coastal Islands Moosehorn Petit Manan Pond Island Rachel Carson Seal Island Sunkhaze Meadows Umbagog
National Forests	White Mountain
National Cemeteries	Acadia National Cemetery Togus National Cemetery
National Trails	Appalachian Trail
National Estuarine Research Reserves	Wells
National wild and scenic rivers	Allagash Wilderness Waterway York River

State Parks	Allagash Wilderness Waterway Androscoggin Riverlands Aroostook Baxter Birch Point Bradbury Mountain Camden Hills Cobscook Bay Crescent Beach Damariscotta Lake Ferry Beach Fort Point Grafton Notch Holbrook Island Sanctuary Lake St. George Lamoine Lily Bay Mackworth Island Moose Point Mount Blue Mount Kineo State Park Owls Head Light State Park Peacock Beach Peaks-Kenny Penobscot River Corridor Popham Beach Quoddy Head Range Ponds Rangeley Lake Reid Roque Bluffs Shackford Head Sebago Lake Swans Falls Campground Swan Lake Two Lights Vaughan Woods Warren Island Wolfe's Neck Woods
State Historic Sites	Bible Point Colburn House Colonial Pemaquid Eagle Island Fort Baldwin Fort Edgecomb Fort Halifax Fort Kent Fort Knox (Penobscot Narrows Observatory) Fort McClary Fort O'Brien John Paul Jones Katahdin Iron Works Mayall Mills Whaleback Shell Midden
State Forests	Durham

v t e Islands of Maine
Cumberland	Bailey Birch Bustins Cliff Cousins Cow Cushing Dingley Eagle Frye Great Chebeague Great Diamond Hog Hope House Jewell Little Chebeague Little Diamond Littlejohn Long Mackworth Orr's Peaks Ragged Sebascodegan
Hancock	Bar Cranberry Isles Baker Bear Great Cranberry Little Cranberry Sutton Deer Isle Eagle Great Duck Great Spruce Head Little Deer Long Marshall Mount Desert Nautilus Porcupine Islands Spectacle Swan's Verona
Knox	Allen Criehaven Curtis Eastern Egg Rock Franklin Isle au Haut Lane's Matinicus Metinic North Haven Seal Two Bush Vinalhaven Whitehead
Lincoln	Burnt the Cuckolds Damariscove Hog Louds Manana Monhegan Squirrel Westport Witch
Penobscot	Ayers
Piscataquis	Gero Sugar
Sagadahoc	Arrowsic Harbor Malaga Pond Swan
Waldo	Islesboro Sears Warren
Washington	Birch Islands Cross Great Wass Machias Seal^† Moose North Rock^† Saint Croix
York	Badger's Boon Seavey's Isles of Shoals Appledore Smuttynose
^† Disputed between the United States and Canada.

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