Schefferville

Schefferville is a community in regional county municipality. It is not accessible by road. Schefferville was established by the Iron Ore Company of Canada in 1954 to support the mining of rich iron ore deposits in the area.
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  • Type: Town with 237 residents
  • Description: town in Quebec, Canada
  • Also known as: “Knob Lake”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Schefferville Airport and Schefferville railway station.

Aerodrome
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is located adjacent to the community of Schefferville, , .

Railway station
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Matimekosh and Lac-John.

Town
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is a First Nations reserve on Lake Pearce in the region of , Canada.

Hamlet
is a First Nations reserve on John Lake…

Schefferville

Latitude
54.8005° or 54° 48′ 2″ north
Longitude
-66.8206° or 66° 49′ 14″ west
Population
237
Elevation
533 metres (1,749 feet)
IATA airport code
YKL
UN/LOCODE
CA YKL
Open location code
976MR52H+6P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 107363597
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6142001
Wiki­data ID
Q141693
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Schefferville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيفيرفيل”
  • Atikamekw: “Schefferville”
  • Basque: “Schefferville”
  • Cebuano: “Schefferville”
  • Chinese: “謝夫維爾”
  • Czech: “Schefferville”
  • Dutch: “Schefferville”
  • Estonian: “Schefferville”
  • Finnish: “Schefferville”
  • French: “Schefferville”
  • German: “Schefferville”
  • Inuktitut: “Schefferville”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓯᕗᕕᐊᓪ”
  • Italian: “Schefferville”
  • Japanese: “シェファーヴィル”
  • Latin: “Schefferville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schefferville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Schefferville”
  • Norwegian: “Schefferville”
  • Persian: “شفرویل، کبک”
  • Persian: “شفرویل”
  • Polish: “Schefferville”
  • Portuguese: “Schefferville”
  • Russian: “Шеффервилл”
  • Serbian: “Schefferville”
  • Serbian: “Сцхеффервилле”
  • Serbian: “Шефервил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Schefferville”
  • Slovak: “Schefferville”
  • Spanish: “Schefferville”
  • Swedish: “Schefferville”
  • Turkish: “Schefferville”
  • Ukrainian: “Шеффервіль”
  • Urdu: “شیفرویل”
  • Volapük: “Schefferville”

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