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Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States.A port of entry for Bay Ferries from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Bar Harbor is a famous summer colony in the Down East region of Maine. It is home to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory and Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory. Bar Harbor is home to the largest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain the highest point within 25 miles (40 km) of the coastline of the Eastern United States and offshore, the Porcupine Islands.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 70.4 square miles (182.4 km²), of which, 42.2 square miles (109.3 km²) of it is land and 28.2 square miles (73.1 km²) of it (40.06%) is water. Bar Harbor is situated on Frenchman Bay.
Bar Harbor Area Code is 207
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