Wedge Island
Wedge Island is a tidal island near Liscomb, Nova Scotia. Geologically, it is a drowned coast. Once the home to a lighthouse and light keepers home, throughout the years with advancements the light keeper was replaced with an all-electric light which was removed some time in the 1970s or 1980s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Wedge Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Categories: tidal island, locality, and landform
- Location: Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
45.00786° or 45° 0′ 28″ northLongitude
-61.87386° or 61° 52′ 26″ westOpen location code
87QW245G+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 2436012105OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
6177543Wikidata ID
Q7979157
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Wedge Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wedge Island”
- French: “Wedge Island (Canada, Nouvelle-Écosse)”
- Japanese: “ウェッジ島”
- Swedish: “Wedge Island, Nova Scotia”
- Swedish: “Wedge Island”
- Turkish: “Wedge Adası”
- Turkish: “Wedge Island”
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