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Martha's Vineyard lies 7 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. 1  In 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold, a British fisherman, discovered the Island and named it after his firstborn daughter and the thick vegetation.
Andrea Sachs uncovered the differences. Martha's Vineyard. LOCATION/ LAY OF THE LAND. The 9-by-23-mile-long island is seven miles from the mainland (or America, as islanders refer to it) and has 125 miles of shoreline -- about as big as the District and Arlington County combined. It has six towns: Vineyard Haven (or Tisbury), Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, Chilmark, West Tisbury and Gay Head, now called Aquinnah.