Junk of Pork
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Junk of Pork | |
 Junk of Pork with roosting seabirds. | |
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| Nearest city | Long Island, Maine |
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| Coordinates | 43°38′51″N 70°07′19″W / 43.64750°N 70.12194°W |
| Area | less than one acre (listed area) |
Junk of Pork is a small sea stack islet in Portland, Maine.[1] 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.
The oblong islet is approximately 200 feet long by 50 feet wide and 40 feet tall at its peak. Junk of Pork has only sparse, grassy vegetation, but is a roosting or nesting site for seabirds, including common eider, black guillemot, American herring gull, common tern, double-crested cormorant and osprey. Outer Green Island is 800 feet to the northwest and at very low tides the islands can connect.[2]