Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Acadia National Park |Nearest
city||Bar Harbor, Maine| |Area||47,400 acres (192 km²)| |Date of
Establishment||February 26, 1919| |Governing Body||National Park
Service| |IUCN category||II (National Park)| Acadia National
Park is a United States National Park, located primarily on
Mount Desert Island off the Atlantic coast of Maine. The park is
administered by the National Park Service. The area includes
mountains, an ocean shoreline, woodlands, and lakes. In addition
to Mount Desert Island, the park comprises much of the Isle au
Haut, a small island to the southwest of Mount Desert Island. A
portion of Schoodic Peninsula on the mainland is also part of
the park. In total, Acadia National Park consists of 30,300
acres on Mount Desert Island, 2,728 acres (11 km²) on Isle au
Haut and 2,266 acres (9.2 km²) on the Schoodic Peninsula. The
park was created as Sieur de Monts National Monument on January
19, 1916. On February 26, 1919, it became a national park, with
the name Lafayett