Gravenhurst

Gravenhurst is a town of about 12,000 people in the Muskoka region of . Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who became famous in China for battlefield surgery, was born here, and is the town's most famous former citizen.
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  • Type: Town with 12,300 residents
  • Description: town in Ontario, Canada
  • Also known as: Gravenhurst, ON” and “Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gravenhurst Post Office and Bethune Memorial House.

Post office

House
, a National Historic Site of Canada in Gravenhurst, , Canada, commemorates the life and achievements of Dr. Norman Bethune.

Gravenhurst

Latitude
44.9174° or 44° 55′ 3″ north
Longitude
-79.3731° or 79° 22′ 23″ west
Population
12,300
Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA GVH
Open location code
87P2WJ8G+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1615046608
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5965546
Wiki­data ID
Q937901
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Gravenhurst” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جرافنهورست
  • Asturian: Gravenhurst
  • Atikamekw: Gravenhurst
  • Catalan: Gravenhurst
  • Cebuano: Gravenhurst
  • Chinese: 格雷文赫斯特
  • Danish: Gravenhurst
  • Dutch: Gravenhurst
  • Egyptian Arabic: جرافنهورست
  • French: Gravenhurst
  • German: Gravenhurst
  • Hebrew: גרייבנהרסט
  • Indonesian: Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • Indonesian: Gravenhurst
  • Japanese: グレイブンハースト
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Gravenhurst i Ontario
  • Persian: گریونرست، انتاریو
  • Persian: گریونرست
  • Polish: Gravenhurst
  • Russian: Грейвенхёрст
  • Serbian: Грејвенхерст
  • Serbo-Croatian: Gravenhurst
  • Slovak: Gravenhurst
  • Slovenian: Gravenhurst
  • Spanish: Gravenhurst (Ontario)
  • Spanish: Gravenhurst
  • Swedish: Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • Swedish: Gravenhurst
  • Turkish: Gravenhurst, Ontario
  • Turkish: Gravenhurst
  • Welsh: Gravenhurst

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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 “Gravenhurst”. Photo: Bethunemh, CC0.