Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Miꞌkmaq: Unamaꞌki) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.. The 10,311 km 2 Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, the 1,385 m (4,544 ft) long rock-fill Canso Causeway …

Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a Canadian national park on northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The park was the first national park in the Atlantic provinces of Canada and covers an area of 948 square kilometres (366 sq mi). It is one of 42 in Canada's system of national parks. It consists of mountains, valleys, waterfalls, rocky coastlines and the Cape …

In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Kinngait (Cape Dorset) had a population of 1,396 living in 362 of its 416 total private dwellings, a change of -3.1% from its 2016 population of 1441.With a land area of 9.89 km 2 (3.82 sq mi), it had a population density of 141.2/km 2 (365.6/sq mi) in 2021.. Transportation. A handful of unnamed dirt/gravel roads …

Cape Breton Regional Municipality (often referred to as simply "CBRM") is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island. As of 2016 the municipality has a population of 94,285. The municipality was created in 1995 through the amalgamation of eight municipalities located in Cape Breton County.

L’île du Cap-Breton (en anglais : Cape Breton Island, en gaélique écossais : Ceap Breatainn ou Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn, en micmac : Onamag), anciennement appelée île Royale, est une grande île de l’océan Atlantique sur la côte de l’Amérique du Nord.Elle fait partie de la province canadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse.L’île est à l’est-nord-est de la partie continentale de la ...

The Cabot Trail is a scenic highway on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a 298 km (185 mi) loop around the northern tip of the island, passing along and through the Cape Breton Highlands and the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.. It is named after the explorer John Cabot who landed in Atlantic Canada in 1497, although modern historians agree his …

Newfoundland (/ ˈ nj uː f ən (d) l ə n d,-l æ n d, nj uː ˈ f aʊ n d-/, locally / ˌ nj uː f ən d ˈ l æ n d /; French: Terre-Neuve, Canadian French: [taɛ̯ʁ.nœːv]; Miꞌkmaq: Ktaqmkuk) is a large island off the east coast of the North American mainland and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.It has 29 percent of the province's land area.

Cape Breton University (CBU) is a public, co-ed, primarily undergraduate university located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.It is the only post-secondary degree-granting institution within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality and on Cape Breton Island.The university is enabled by the Cape Breton University Act passed by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Elk Island National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada, that played an important part in the conservation of the Plains bison. ... Parks Canada transferred eighteen moose from Elk Island to Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Highlands National Park between 1947 and 1948. Reintroduction of traditional species has been an important focus as well.

Dirk Hartog Island is an island off the Gascoyne coast of Western Australia, ... Breton navigator Louis Aleno de St Aloüarn landed on the island and became the first European to formally take possession of Western Australia in the name of the French king Louis XV. This involved a ceremony (which took place on 30 March) during which one or more ...