Naushon Island

Naushon Island has been a Forbes family retreat for some time, where the opium trader John Murray Forbes and his family summered for more than a century. Sen. John Forbes Kerry and his first cousin Brice Lalonde summered there, and at another Forbes family estate in France, at Saint-Briac when he was growing up. The family owns the island through the J.M. Forbes Naushon Island Trust. Naushon island is seven miles long, just off (SW of) Cape Cod in the Elizabeth Islands, and four miles NW of Martha's Vineyard. The island is owned by the family and is included in the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts.

There are three beaches with public access (Kettle cove, Westend beach, Tarpaulin cove), and a well protected harbor with moorings. There are no paved roads but many miles of trails through the mostly beech woods. An inoperative lighthouse sits above Tarpaulin cove.