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Aquinnah Cliffs

These are the multicolored clay cliffs at Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, an island in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, lying just south of Cape Cod. The cliffs are a federally protected landmark, climbing on or disturbing the clay is prohibited by law.

 

Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is known for being a popular, affluent summer colony, and includes the smaller peninsula Chappaquiddick Island which received international notoriety after the "Chappaquiddick incident" of July 18, 1969, in which Mary Jo Kopechne was killed in a car driven off the Dike Bridge by U.S. Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.

 

In 1974, Steven Spielberg filmed the movie Jaws on Martha's Vineyard.

 

[This place was named Gay Head until fairly recently]

 

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Uploaded on August 22, 2024
Taken on May 17, 2019