Muscle Ridge Shoals Township

Otter Island Ledge Day Beacon in Muscle Ridge Channel (2015)

This island group township in Knox County is just offshore from South Thomaston in the Gulf of Maine. Its more than a dozen islands includes the larger Andrews, Dix, Fisherman and Pleasant.  [click images to enlarge and clarify, for these and all others] The “shoals” refer to ledges and reefs that threaten safe passage.  Otter…