Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 16.7 square miles (43.1 km2), of which 8.0 square miles (20.6 km2) is land and 8.7 square miles (22.5 km2) (52.22%) is water.
The island is known for its quarries of gray or black fossiliferous limestone from the Late Cambrian and Ordovician Chazy Formation, the oldest known coral reef on Earth.
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