Northumberland Strait
The Northumberland Strait is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada. The strait is formed by Prince Edward Island and the gulf's eastern, southern, and western shores.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Channel
- Description: strait between Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
- Also known as: “Detroit de Northumberland” and “Détroit de Northumberland”
Northumberland Strait
- Categories: strait and body of water
- Location: Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Northumberland Strait” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Northumberland”
- Azerbaijani: “Nortamberlend boğazı”
- Catalan: “estret de Northumberland”
- Cebuano: “Détroit de Northumberland (agianan sa New Brunswick)”
- Cebuano: “Détroit de Northumberland (agianan sa Nova Scotia)”
- Cebuano: “Détroit de Northumberland (agianan sa Prince Edward Island)”
- Cebuano: “Northumberland Strait (agianan sa Nova Scotia)”
- Cebuano: “Northumberland Strait (agianan sa Prince Edward Island, lat 46,00, long -63,50)”
- Cebuano: “Northumberland Strait (estretso)”
- Cebuano: “Northumberland Strait”
- Chinese: “諾森伯倫海峽”
- Dutch: “Détroit de Northumberland”
- Dutch: “Northumberland Strait”
- French: “détroit de Northumberland”
- French: “Détroit de Northumberland”
- German: “Northumberlandstraße”
- Hebrew: “מצר נורת’אמברלנד”
- Italian: “Stretto di Northumberland”
- Japanese: “ノーサンバーランド海峡”
- Japanese: “ノーザンバーランド海峡”
- Korean: “노섬벌랜드 해협”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Northumberlandsundet”
- Occitan (post 1500): “estreit de Northumberland”
- Persian: “تنگه نورثامبرلند”
- Polish: “Northumberland Strait”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Northumberland”
- Russian: “Нортамберленд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Caolas Mór a Tuath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Caolas Mòr a Tuath”
- Slovenian: “Détroit de Northumberland”
- Slovenian: “Northumberland Strait”
- Slovenian: “Severnoumbrijski preliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Northumberland”
- Swedish: “Détroit de Northumberland”
- Swedish: “Northumberland Strait”
- Ukrainian: “Протока Нортумбрії”
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