Moosonee
Moosonee is a town of 1,500 people in Northern Ontario. Called the "Gateway to the Arctic", it is Ontario's only saltwater port where goods are transferred from trains to aircraft and barges to more northerly communities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,730 residents
- Description: town in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Moosonee, ON” and “Moosonee, Ontario”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moosonee station and Northern Lights Secondary School.
Moosonee station
Railway station
Photo: Svabo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moosonee station is a railway station in Moosonee, Ontario, Canada operated by the Ontario Northland Railway. It is the northern terminus of Ontario Northland's Polar Bear Express, located about 12 miles south of the shore of James Bay on the north bank of the Moose River.
Northern Lights Secondary School
School
Northern Lights Secondary School is a public high school in Moosonee, Ontario, Canada. The school is notable for being the first in the district to launch the PO programme in 2019.
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority
Hospital
Photo: P199, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority is a health-care network operating hospitals and supporting federal nursing stations in remote communities along the James Bay and Hudson Bay coasts in Northern Ontario, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moose Factory.
Moose Factory
Town
Photo: Hjvannes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Moose Factory is a community in the Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Moose Factory Island, near the mouth of the Moose River, which is at the southern end of James Bay. Moose Factory is situated 3½ km east of Moosonee.
Moosonee
- Categories: single-tier municipality and locality
- Location: Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.2671° or 51° 16′ 2″ northLongitude
-80.6506° or 80° 39′ 2″ westPopulation
1,730Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
YMOUnited Nations Location Code
CA MOUOpen location code
963X788X+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 107364092OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6078372Wikidata ID
Q1736159
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Turkish—“Moosonee” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Moosonee”
- Arabic: “موسوني”
- Armenian: “Մուսոնի”
- Asturian: “Moosonee”
- Atikamekw: “Moosonee”
- Bulgarian: “Мосоне”
- Catalan: “Moosonee”
- Cebuano: “Moosonee”
- Chinese: “穆索尼”
- Dutch: “Moosonee”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موسونى”
- French: “Moosonee”
- German: “Moosonee”
- Italian: “Moosonee”
- Japanese: “ムースニー”
- Persian: “موزونی”
- Polish: “Moosonee”
- Portuguese: “Moosonee”
- Russian: “Мусони”
- Serbian: “Мусони”
- Slovak: “Moosonee”
- Slovenian: “Moosonee”
- Spanish: “Moosonee (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Moosonee”
- Swedish: “Moosonee”
- Turkish: “Moosonee”
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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 “Moosonee”. Photo: Hjvannes, CC BY-SA 3.0.