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.
- Type: Town with 1,730 residents
- Description: town in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Moosonee (Ontario)”, “Moosonee, ON”, “Moosonee, Ontario”, and “ᒨᓱᓂᔾ Moosonee”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Moosonee station and Northern Lights Secondary School.
Northern Lights Secondary School
School
Northern Lights Secondary School is a public high school in Moosonee, Ontario, Canada.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moose Factory.
Moose Factory
Town
Moosonee
- Categories: single-tier municipality and locality
- Location: Moosonee, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.2671° or 51° 16′ 2″ north
Longitude
-80.6506° or 80° 39′ 2″ west
Population
1,730
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
YMO
UN/LOCODE
CA MOU
Open location code
963X788X+RP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“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”
- Dagbani: “Moosonee”
- 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”
- Swedish: “Moosonee”
- Turkish: “Moosonee”
- Urdu: “موسونی”
- “Moosonee”
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