Jordan Pond, Acadia National Park, Maine
Photo Credit: Erin McDaniel, GNU Free Documentation License
Acadia National Park is a national park in Maine, New England. It comprises 30,3000 acres of Mount Desert Island and other smaller islands off the Atlantic coast of Maine, such as the Isle au Haut (2,728 acres) and parts of Baker Island. A portion of Schoodic Peninsula (2,266 acres) is also in Acadia National Park. Acadia National Park is the only national park in New England and the first national park on the east side of the Mississippi River.
Thunder Hole, a hole formed by tide in the granite coastline, is a geologic phenomenon within the park and along eastern coast of Mount Desert Island. It is thus called because of the booming sound that it makes whenever waves come in from the Atlantic Ocean. The spray from Thunder Hole can reach forty feet in height.
Acadia National Park has its beginning on 8 July, 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson created it, as Sieur de Monts National Monument. On 26 February, 1919, it became a national park, with the name Lafayette National Park in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the influential French supporter of the American Revolution.
In 1929, a legislation was to allow the government to accept gifts of land on the Schoodic Peninsula, beyond the limits of Mount Desert Island, to be included. At the request of the donor, the park was renamed Acadia National Park on 19 January, 1929.
Acadia National Park in winter
by the National Park Service, and available in the public domain
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