Some Fun Facts about Nantucket

• John Cusack’s classic ‘One Crazy Summer’ took place on Nantucket.
• The year round population of Nantucket is approximately 10,000 residents and balloons to 56,000 people at the peak of summer.
• There is a harpoon in the Whaling Museum that was removed from a sperm whale caught twice by the same man - nine years apart.
• Nantucket is translated as "far away land" in the Wampanoag dialect.