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Noank is a village in the town of Groton, in New London County, Connecticut, sitting on a small, steep peninsula at the mouth of the Mystic River, and the census-designated place had 1,654 residents and 789 households at the 2020 census.

In 1614 the area was known as Nauyang, meaning 'point of land', and was a summer camping ground of the Pequot people, and the land of the Noank Peninsula was acquired by James Morgan through a lottery in 1712.

Noank grew from a tradition of fishing, lobstering, and boatbuilding: in 1861 Charles Mallory and Elihu Spicer Jr. established the C. H. Mallory and Company steamship line, and in 1879 Robert Palmer put steam railways into his shipbuilding plant, which became one of the largest in the United States for making wooden ships and built one thousand vessels.

The fishing sailboat type known as the 'Noank Smack' is indigenous to this village, and the Emma C. Berry, a Noank smack, is preserved at Mystic Seaport.

The Connecticut State Lobster Hatchery was established in Noank around 1912.

Noank hosts one of the longest-running continuous Memorial Day parades in the country, held annually since 1876.

Most of the community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as the Noank Historic District, including houses and businesses dating back to 1840 and about 260 houses noted for their domestic architecture.

Scenes for the movie Mystic Pizza were filmed at Ford's Lobsters in Noank.

Aviator Amelia Earhart married George Palmer Putnam in Noank on February 7, 1931.

In the 2020 census the median age in Noank was 58.1 years, and 34.1 percent of residents were 65 years of age or older.