Port Hawkesbury
Port Hawkesbury is a town of 3,200 people on the southwestern end of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of the Strait of Canso. Port Hastings is an unincorporated community about 7 km up Highway 104 from Port Hawkesbury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Martin Cathrae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Point Tupper Generating Station.
Point Tupper Generating Station
Power station
Photo: Achim Hering, CC BY 3.0.
The Point Tupper Generating Station is a 150 MW Canadian electrical generating station located in the community of Point Tupper in Richmond County, Nova Scotia. Point Tupper Generating Station is situated 3½ km south of Port Hawkesbury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Hawkesbury and Port Hastings.
Port Hawkesbury and Port Hastings
Photo: Michel Rathwell, CC BY 2.0.
Port Hawkesbury is a town of 3,200 people on the southwestern end of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of the Strait of Canso. Port Hastings is an unincorporated community about 7 km up Highway 104 from Port Hawkesbury.
Port Hawkesbury
- Type: Town with 3,000 residents
- Description: town in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Categories: town in Nova Scotia and locality
- Location: Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
45.61809° or 45° 37′ 5″ northLongitude
-61.35746° or 61° 21′ 27″ westPopulation
3,000Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)IATA airport code
YPSUnited Nations Location Code
CA PHWOpen location code
87QWJJ9V+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 1917913073OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6111867Wikidata ID
Q2326975
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Port Hawkesbury” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Atikamekw: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Azerbaijani: “Port-Hoksberi”
- Cebuano: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Chinese: “霍克斯伯里港”
- Dutch: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Estonian: “Port Hawkesbury”
- French: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Galician: “Port Hawkesbury”
- German: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Hebrew: “פורט הוקסברי”
- Irish: “Baile a‘ Chlamhain”
- Irish: “Baile a’ Chlamhain”
- Italian: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Japanese: “ポート・ホークスベリー”
- Persian: “پورت هاوکسبری”
- Polish: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Portuguese: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Russian: “Порт-Хоксбери”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile a‘ Chlamhain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile a’ Chlamhain”
- Slovenian: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Spanish: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Swedish: “Port Hawkesbury”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Гоксбері”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Point Tupper and Mulgrave.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Royal Canadian Legion Hall Branch 43 and Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre.
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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 Wikivoyage page “Port Hawkesbury”. Photo: Martin Cathrae, CC BY-SA 2.0.