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"I'm Cyrus Manley, and I'm new to the island. Perhaps you could show me around?"

―Cyrus Manley

"Nantucket is an island?"

―Temperance Barrow

"[Looking in an atlas] What do you know? It is!"

―Marge Simpson^[src]

Nantucket

Town/City Information

Country:	USA
State/Province:	Massachusetts
First mentioned:	"Deep Space Homer"

Nantucket is an island 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. From mid-1700s until its decline in the 1850s, Nantucket was the whaling capital of the world.

History

More than once Homer starts off the limerick "There once was a man from Nantucket," but never finishes.^[1]^[2]

When the Simpson family are seated at a table in the shape of a map of Massachusetts at the Americatown theme restaurant in Tokyo, Nantucket is the tray of Maggie's highchair.^[2]

Marge sets her book "The Harpooned Heart" in Nantucket.^[3]

Appearances

Episode – "Deep Space Homer" (mentioned)
Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (mentioned)
Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
Comic story – Call Me Homer

References

External links

Nantucket at Wikipedia

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[1] "Deep Space Homer"

[Tokyo-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"

[3] "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"

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