Amherst Island
Amherst Island is located in Lake Ontario, 10 kilometres west of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Amherst Island, being wholly in Lake Ontario, is upstream, above the St Lawrence River Thousand Islands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amherstview.
Amherstview
Suburb
Amherstview is an unincorporated community in the township of Loyalist, Ontario. It is located on the north shore of Lake Ontario and has a population of approximately 7,959 as of 2016. Amherstview is situated 10 km northeast of Amherst Island.
Amherst Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Ontario, Canada
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
44.14672° or 44° 8′ 48″ northLongitude
-76.71569° or 76° 42′ 57″ westPopulation
450Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)Named after
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron AmherstOpen location code
87P547WM+MPOpenStreetMap ID
way 54601667OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Amherst Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Amherst Island”
- Dutch: “Amherst Island”
- French: “Amherst Island”
- French: “île Amherst”
- French: “Île Amherst”
- German: “Amherst Island”
- Swedish: “Amherst Island, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Amherst Island”
- Turkish: “Amherst Adası”
- Turkish: “Amherst Island”
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