Sable Island

Sable Island is an island off the coast of , , and a Canadian national park reserve. It is a remote place without services that is hundreds of kilometres from anywhere else – there were only 806 visitors in 2022–23.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: island in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Also known as: Main Station” and “Sable Island Main Station

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sable Island Airport.

Aerodrome
Sable Island Aerodrome, is located on Sable Island, , Canada. The term aerodrome is somewhat of a misnomer since there is no actual airport infrastructure nor is there a runway on Sable Island. is situated 4 km east of Sable Island.

Sable Island

Latitude
43.933° or 43° 55′ 59″ north
Longitude
-60.0069° or 60° 0′ 25″ west
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
YSA
United Nations Location Code
CA YSA
Open location code
87MXWXMV+56
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2907530686
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
6137005
Wiki­data ID
Q1336091
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Satellite Map

Discover Sable Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Sable Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جزيرة سايبل
  • Belarusian: Востраў Сэйбл
  • Belarusian: Сэйбл
  • Breton: Enez Sable
  • Bulgarian: остров Сейбъл
  • Bulgarian: Сейбъл
  • Cebuano: Sable Island (pulo sa Canada)
  • Cebuano: Sable Island
  • Chinese: 塞布尔岛
  • Czech: Sable
  • Danish: Sable Island
  • Dutch: Sable-eiland
  • Egyptian Arabic: جزيره سايبل
  • Esperanto: Insulo Sable
  • Esperanto: Sablinsulo
  • Esperanto: Sabloinsulo
  • Finnish: Sable Island
  • French: île de Sable
  • French: Île de Sable
  • German: Ile de Sable
  • German: Sable Island
  • Greek: Νησί Σέιμπλ
  • Hebrew: סייבל
  • Icelandic: Sable
  • Italian: Sable Island
  • Japanese: セーブル島
  • Korean: 세이블섬
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sable Island
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Sable Island
  • Norwegian: Sable Island
  • Persian: جزیره سابل
  • Polish: Sable Island
  • Polish: Sable
  • Portuguese: Ilha Sable
  • Portuguese: Sable Island
  • Russian: Остров Сейбл
  • Russian: Сейбл
  • Russian: Сэйбл
  • Spanish: Isla Sable
  • Swedish: Île de Sable
  • Swedish: Sable Island
  • Turkish: Sable Island
  • Turkish: sable ısland
  • Ukrainian: Сейбл-Айленд
  • Ukrainian: Сейбл
  • Urdu: سیبل اسلنڈ
  • Western Frisian: Sable

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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 “Sable Island”. Photo: Gierszep, CC BY-SA 4.0.