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Castle and Nut Islands now form the ends of peninsulas due to land reclamation, while Deer Island was attached to Winthrop Peninsula by the New England Hurricane of 1938. Castle Island, Deer Island and Nut Island, all in Boston Harbor, have been attached to the mainland and remain islands in name only.

Several islands existed as hills in western Worcester County and eastern Hampshire County until the 1930s, when the Swift River was dammed amid controversy to create the Quabbin Reservoir to meet demand for water in the Boston metropolitan area. The recent history of Massachusetts' islands includes creation by flooding, connection to the mainland and subsumption into new land. Abbott Rock, first on the list below) to the large, famous and heavily visited Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The islands of Massachusetts range from barren, almost completely submerged rocks in Massachusetts Bay (e.g. Rainsford Island is part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, a National Recreation Area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts

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