Port Nelson
Port Nelson is a ghost town on Hudson Bay, in Manitoba, Canada, at the mouth of the Nelson River. Its peak population in the early 20th century was about 1,000 people.- Type: Locality
- Description: town in Manitoba, Canada
- Also known as: “Port Nelson, Manitoba”
Port Nelson
- Category: ghost town
- Location: Manitoba, Prairies, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.05472° or 57° 3′ 17″ north
Longitude
-92.60638° or 92° 36′ 23″ west
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA PNE
Open location code
9699393V+VC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Serbian—“Port Nelson” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “尼爾森港”
- Finnish: “Port Nelson”
- French: “Port Nelson”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Nelson”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Nelson i Manitoba”
- Norwegian: “Port Nelson”
- Serbian: “Порт Нелсон”
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