Sambro Island Light
Sambro Island Lighthouse is a landfall lighthouse located at the entrance to Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, on an island near the community of Sambro in the Halifax Regional Municipality.Photo: Letterofmarque, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada; oldest surviving lighthouse in North America
- Also known as: “phare de l’île Sambro” and “Sambro Island Lighthouse”
Sambro Island Light
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Halifax, Halifax Region, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.43666° or 44° 26′ 12″ northLongitude
-63.56332° or 63° 33′ 48″ westOpen location code
87PRCCPP+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1920822931OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseWikidata ID
Q7409095
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Russian—“Sambro Island Light” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Vuurtoren van Sambro Island”
- French: “phare de l’île Sambro”
- French: “Phare de l’île Sambro”
- German: “Sambro Island Lighthouse”
- Russian: “Маяк Самбро”
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Highlights include Sambro Island and Mad Rock.
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