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Smuttynose Island (formerly "Smutty-nose") is one of the Isles Of Shoals , located six miles off the coast of New Hampshire but actually in the state of Maine . It was named by fishermen, seeing the island at sea level and noticing how the profuse Seaweed at one end looked like the "smutty nose" of some vast sea animal.

The island is best known for the murders which occurred there. On , '' The Weight Of Water ''.

Smuttynose Island is also the source of the name of the Smuttynose Brewing Company of Portsmouth, NH .