Mont Mégantic
Mont Mégantic is a monadnock located in Québec, Canada, about 15 km north of the border between Québec and the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire. Mégantic is on the border of the regional county municipalities of Le Granit and Le Haut-Saint-François.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,102 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Mont Megantic”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mont Mégantic Observatory.
Mont Mégantic Observatory
Building
Photo: Khayman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mont Mégantic Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated jointly by the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval. Founded in 1978, the observatory houses the second largest telescope in Eastern Canada after David Dunlap Observatory near Toronto.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Notre-Dame-des-Bois and La Patrie.
Notre-Dame-des-Bois
Village
Photo: Khayman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notre-Dame-des-Bois is a municipality in Le Granit Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada, on the Canada–United States border. Notre-Dame-des-Bois is situated 9 km southeast of Mont Mégantic.
La Patrie
Village
Photo: Khayman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Patrie is a municipality of about 815 people in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It is located at the base of Mont Mégantic. La Patrie is situated 10 km southwest of Mont Mégantic.
Mont Mégantic
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: La Patrie, Estrie, Quebec, Canada, North America
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Latitude
45.45566° or 45° 27′ 20″ northLongitude
-71.15176° or 71° 9′ 6″ westElevation
1,102 metres (3,615 feet)Open location code
87QCFR4X+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 969204274OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mont Mégantic” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mont Mégantic”
- Dutch: “Mont Mégantic”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ميجانتيك”
- French: “mont Mégantic”
- French: “Mont Mégantic”
- German: “Mont Mégantic”
- Japanese: “モンメガンティク”
- Ladin: “Mont Mégantic”
- Slovenian: “mont Mégantic”
- Spanish: “Monte Megantic”
- Spanish: “Monte Mégantic”
- Swedish: “Mont Mégantic”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mont Mégantic”. Photo: Khayman, CC BY-SA 3.0.