Caribou Island
Caribou Island is an uninhabited island in the eastern end of Lake Superior, 40 kilometres south of Michipicoten Island. It lies entirely within the territorial waters of Canada although only about five kilometres from the international border between Canada and the United States.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Caribou Island Lighthouse.
Caribou Island Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Duckminster, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caribou Island Lighthouse sits on the uninhabited Caribou Island in the eastern end of Lake Superior, 22 miles south of Michipicoten Island. It lies entirely within the territorial waters of Canada although only about three miles from the international border between Canada and the United States.
Caribou Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Canada
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
47.36405° or 47° 21′ 51″ northLongitude
-85.80908° or 85° 48′ 33″ westElevation
189 metres (620 feet)IATA airport code
YCIUnited Nations Location Code
CA YCIOpen location code
86VP957R+J9OpenStreetMap ID
way 71603550OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Caribou Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Caribou Island”
- French: “île Caribou”
- French: “Île Caribou”
- Swedish: “Caribou Island, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Caribou Island”
- Turkish: “Caribou Adası”
- Turkish: “Caribou Island”
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