Port aux Basques
Channel-Port aux Basques is a town of 4,100 people in the southwestern corner of Newfoundland. It serves as the main point of entry for Trans-Canada Highway traffic arriving by ferry from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia…Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Michel Rathwell, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,550 residents
- Description: town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Also known as: “Channel-Port aux Basques” and “Port Aux Basques”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Channel Head Lighthouse.
Port aux Basques
Latitude
47.5777° or 47° 34′ 40″ northLongitude
-59.1424° or 59° 8′ 33″ westPopulation
3,550Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA PBQOpen location code
88V2HVH5+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 33943661OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Port aux Basques” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Basque: “Port-aux-Basques”
- Cebuano: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Chinese: “钱纳尔-巴斯克港”
- Dutch: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- French: “Channel – Port aux Basques”
- French: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- French: “Channel-Port-aux-Basques”
- German: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- German: “Port aux Basques”
- Italian: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Japanese: “チャンネル＝ポルトー・バスク”
- Korean: “채널포트오바스크”
- Polish: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Portuguese: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Portuguese: “Port aux Basques”
- Portuguese: “Port-aux-Basques”
- Spanish: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Swedish: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Turkish: “Channel-Port aux Basques”
- Ukrainian: “Ченел-Порт-о-Баск”
- Urdu: “چینل-پورٹ آکس باسکیو”
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