Sable Island
Sable Island is an island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Gierszep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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.
Sable Island Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: HiFlyChick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sable Island Aerodrome, is located on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. The term aerodrome is somewhat of a misnomer since there is no actual airport infrastructure nor is there a runway on Sable Island. Sable Island Airport is situated 4 km east of Sable Island.
Sable Island
- Category: island
- Location: Eastern Shore, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.933° or 43° 55′ 59″ northLongitude
-60.0069° or 60° 0′ 25″ westElevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
YSAUnited Nations Location Code
CA YSAOpen location code
87MXWXMV+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 2907530686OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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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.