Page "Criehaven, Maine" Paragraph 5

Ragged Island on early charts in 1754, 1776, and 1819 is shown as " Ragged Arse Island.

" McLane asserts the name " Ragged Arse Island " might have been an attempt to render " Racketash ," Abnaki for " island rocks.

" Charts in the mid-19th Century began calling it Ragged Island but, McLane asserts, the Matinicus lobstermen continue calling the island Ragged Arse " out of perversity.

" Ragged Island dubs itself the " Island of Lobsters ," and boasts of being the farthest offshore inhabited island on the East Coast.