In the dim and distant past, I spent a few summers driving a taxi on Nantucket Island in the USA. If you’ve never heard of Nantucket, the Island was inspiration for the book Moby Dick and the film Jaws (Amity Island was a fictional version of Nantucket). As these films may suggest, the Island has a bloody history, and once laid claim to being the ‘whaling capital of the world’.
On a lighter note, some readers may also know the limerick about ‘there once was a man from Nantucket’. Various versions of the limerick exist, each one ruder than the last so be warned should you be inclined to Google them.