The rural coastal community of Caribou Island is located on the north side of Pictou County. The Northumberland Strait borders the north shore of the Island and Caribou Harbour along the south, and a small isthmus generated over time, and the Caribou Island Road connects it year round to the main land .
The Mi’kmaq name for Caribou Island was “Komoogun-uk” meaning where birds are decoyed.
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Caribou Island Map
- Title: Map of Caribou Island
- Creator: PictouCounty.net
- Date: 2024
- Size: 43.18 x 27.94 cm
The 2024 Caribou Island map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features.
The underlying geospatial data used in this map originates from the Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB), freely available to the public under an open government license. Topographic data features were interpolated from aerial photography acquired in 2003 and terrain features were generated from Lidar data acquired in 2017.
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Some other geographic places located on Caribou Island include:
- Black Point
- Caribou Island Outer Beach
- Caribou Reef
- Gull Point
- Gull Spit
- Gully Head
- Hansons Cove
- Hawksbill Point
- Kenneth Point
- Little Point
- MacCarthys Point
- Mackenzie Point
- MacKenzie Beach Provincial Park
- Ram Island
Community of Caribou Island Map
More Caribou Island Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map(s): 011E10 & 011E15
- 1:250k Topographic NTS Map: 011E
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 2
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map(s): NS Land Grant map 86 / NS Land Grant map 092
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Map(s): 1045750062700 (Caribou Island) / 1045750062600 (Caribou Reef) / 1045700062700 (Caribou)
- Other Maps:
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This customized map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. The underlying geospatial data used in this map originates from the Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB), freely available to the public under an open government license. Topographic data features was interpolated from aerial photography acquired in 2003 and terrain features were generated from Lidar data acquired in 2017. The size that will provide true scale and optimum readability for this map is 915 mm by 609 mm.
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