Lunenburg
Lunenburg is a small fishing town in Nova Scotia that was established in 1753. Its Old Town is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. UNESCO considers the site the best example of planned British colonial settlement in North America, as it retains its original layout and appearance of the 1800s, including local wooden vernacular architecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 2,400 residents
- Description: town in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “Lunenburg, Nova Scotia”, “Lunenburg, NS”, and “Town of Lunenburg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lunenburg Opera House and Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic.
Lunenburg Opera House
Theater building
Photo: Skeezix1000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lunenburg Opera House is a building within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 1907, the land needed to build the Opera House was purchased by the Rising Sun Lodge of the International Order of Odd Fellows from C.
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic
Museum
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The Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic is a museum in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, operating seasonally from mid-May through mid-October. The museum commemorates the fishing heritage of the Atlantic coast of Canada.
Knaut–Rhuland House
Historic building
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Knaut–Rhuland House is a historic 18th-century house in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as well as a Provincially Registered Property under the provincial Heritage Property Act.
Lunenburg
Latitude
44.3759° or 44° 22′ 33″ northLongitude
-64.3171° or 64° 19′ 2″ westPopulation
2,400Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA LUNOpen location code
87PQ9MGM+94OpenStreetMap ID
way 88082554GeoNames ID
6062069Wikidata ID
Q105441
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Lunenburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدينة لونينبورج”
- Arabic: “مدينة ونينبورج”
- Atikamekw: “Lunenburg”
- Azerbaijani: “Lunenberq”
- Azerbaijani: “Lunenburq”
- Basque: “Lunenburg (Eskozia Berria)”
- Basque: “Lunenburg”
- Catalan: “Lunenburg”
- Cebuano: “Lunenburg”
- Chinese: “卢嫩堡”
- Chinese: “盧嫩堡”
- Croatian: “Lunenburg”
- Czech: “Lunenburg”
- Danish: “Lunenburg”
- Dutch: “Lunenburg”
- Estonian: “Lunenburg”
- Finnish: “Lunenburg”
- French: “Lunenburg”
- Georgian: “ლუნენბურგი”
- German: “Lunenburg”
- Hebrew: “לוננבורג”
- Hungarian: “Lunenburg”
- Indonesian: “Lunenburg, Nova Scotia”
- Italian: “Lunenburg”
- Japanese: “ルーネンバーグ”
- Korean: “루넨버그”
- Lithuanian: “Lunenbergas”
- Maltese: “Lunenburg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lunenburg”
- Persian: “لاننبورگ، نوا اسکوشیا”
- Polish: “Lunenburg”
- Portuguese: “Lunenburg”
- Russian: “Луненберг”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lunenburg”
- Slovak: “Lunenburg”
- Slovenian: “Lunenburg”
- Spanish: “Lunenburg (Nueva Escocia)”
- Spanish: “Lunenburg”
- Swedish: “Lunenburg”
- Turkish: “Lunenburg”
- Ukrainian: “Луненбург”
- Vietnamese: “Lunenburg, Nova Scotia”
- Vietnamese: “Lunnenburg, Nova Scotia”
- Vietnamese: “Lunnenburg”
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