Gull Spit, Pictou County
Gull Spit, Nova Scotia
Gull Spit Geography
- Official Name: Gull Spit
- Geographic Feature Type Category: Terrain Feature
- Geographic Feature Type: Spit
- Affiliated Community: Caribou Island
- Latitude / Longitude: 45.760099, -62.685929
Gull Spit Maps
- 1:50k Topographic NTS Map: 011E15
- 1:250k Topographic NTS Map: 011E
- 1879 Pictou County Atlas Map: Section 2
- Nova Scotia Land Grant Map: Crown Land Grant Map 092
- Nova Scotia 1:10k Topographic Maps: 1045750062600 (Caribou Reef)
- Other Maps:
About Gull Spit
Gull Spit is a small sandy strip of land (about half a kilometer) located along the south side of Caribou Island, that extends south into Caribou Harbour. It is a home for many species of Shorebirds.
A Spit is considered to be a depositional coastal landform created by longshore drift, that extends out from the mainland into a water body, often with a curved end and salt marshes behind it.
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