Woods Hole (Massachusetts)

Woods Hole is a small harbor town on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known by the seat of several research institutions, particularly the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( WHOI ).

The village itself has only 925 inhabitants ( 2000) and is one of Falmouth in Barnstable County. Originally a fishing and whaling, which was also a guano factory in the 19th century, since the beginning of the 20th century dominated the summer homes of wealthy city dwellers. Here is adjacent to the marine research station WHOI, which is here since 1930, the Woods Hole Research Center ( founded in 1985, especially climate change), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is Northeast Fisheries Science Center here since 1871, the Marine Biological Laboratory ( MBL, since 1888) and a research center of the U.S. Geological Survey for marine geology. The Sea Education Association (SEA ), which gives students experience sailing ship, has their headquarters here There is an aquarium and exhibition rooms of the Research Institute ( WHOI, MBL) and a historical museum. The place has a protected inland port ( Eel Pond ).

There are close to a historic lighthouse, Nobska Light, first built in 1828 and rebuilt in 1876. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and the adjacent building seat of the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard for Southeast New England.

From Woods Hole ferry to the south of the neighboring Martha 's Vineyard.