This Caribou Island map was created by combining modified topographic data, community details, and a shaded relief model to depict terrain features. Browse the map online here, or to download a copy to use on your own device. (Also see the list of other Caribou Island maps …)
Hansons Cove is a small, sheltered inlet with a narrow entrance, located on the south side of Caribou Island between Mackenzie Point and Kenneth Point.
Caribou Island is located on the north side of Caribou Harbour along the Northumberland Strait. The Mi’kmaq name was “Komoogun-uk” meaning where birds are decoyed. William Rodgers from Ireland first settled here about 1803. A Lighthouse at Gull Point on the north east end of the Island, it was first built in 1868. The name refers to both a terrain feature and the community.
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Kenneth Point is located on the south side of Caribou Island between MacCarthys Point and Mackenzie point, extending out into the Caribou Harbour. It was labeled as Harris Point on the 1879 map, possibly because the land grant here at that time was to Matthew Harris.