Point Edward
Point Edward is a community in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality located on the southwest shore of the North West Arm of Sydney Harbour, immediately north of the community of North West Arm, south of Edwardsville, and west of Westmount.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “Point Edward, Nova Scotia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Sydney and Sydney.
North Sydney
Photo: Michel Rathwell, CC BY 2.0.
North Sydney is a community of 5,700 people on the eastern shore of Cape Breton Island on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. It is mostly a service centre for the ferry traffic to Newfoundland with a number of restaurants and motels.
Sydney
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Point Edward
- Categories: General Service Area and locality
- Location: Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.16269° or 46° 9′ 46″ northLongitude
-60.27669° or 60° 16′ 36″ westElevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA PEDOpen location code
87RX5P7F+38OpenStreetMap ID
node 1740785150OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6107758Wikidata ID
Q7208016
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Turkish—“Point Edward” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Rubha Ìomhair”
- Irish: “Rudha Ìomhair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha Ìomhair”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rudha Ìomhair”
- Turkish: “Point Edward”
- “Point Edward”
- “Rudha Ìomhair”
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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 “Point Edward”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.