Hospital Island
Hospital Island is a small three-acre island in the Passamaquoddy Bay located northeast of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick. In 1842 it was established as a quarantine port for newcomers to the region, predominantly Irish emigres fleeing the potato famine, with an estimated 400 patients having died on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in New Brunswick, Canada
- Also known as: “Little Hardwood Island” and “Quarantine Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dicks Island.
Dicks Island
Island
Dick Island is an undeveloped island in the St. Patrick Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada in the Bay of Fundy. The Nature Trust of New Brunswick owns the island as a nature preserve since 2003, when it was donated by Jack and Anne Disher In 2020, a parcel of land in Bocabec was donated to the Nature Trust in honour of the Dishers' memory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chamcook and Saint Andrews.
Chamcook
Hamlet
Chamcook is an unincorporated area in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada. It lies between the eastern shore of Chamcook Lake and the western edge of Passamaquoddy Bay.
Saint Andrews
Photo: Skeezix1000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Andrews is a seaside resort town of about 1,500 people in the Canadian province of New Brunswick on the Bay of Fundy.
Hospital Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: New Brunswick, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.12086° or 45° 7′ 15″ northLongitude
-67.01154° or 67° 0′ 42″ westElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
87QJ4XCQ+89OpenStreetMap ID
way 1462270515OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
5977609Wikidata ID
Q22644996
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Hospital Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hospital Island”
- Dutch: “Hospital Island”
- French: “Hospital Island (Canada)”
- Swedish: “Hospital Island”
- Turkish: “Hospital Adası”
- Turkish: “Hospital Island”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Saint Patrick Parish and Saint Patrick.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hardwood Island and Dick’s Island Nature Preserve.
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