Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island is the northernmost island in Nova Scotia. It is a beautifully rugged island, populated by the descendants of Scottish immigrants, by Acadians, and by the Indigenous Mi'kmaq people.Tap on the map to travel |
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Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Sydney
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Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.
Cape Breton Highlands National Park
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park is the second largest national park in Atlantic Canada and the largest in the Maritime provinces.
Baddeck
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Baddeck is a pleasant little village of 800 people on the shore of Bras d'Or Lake in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
Destinations
North Sydney
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North Sydney is a community of 5,700 people on the eastern shore of Cape Breton Island on the north shore of Sydney Harbour.
Port Hawkesbury and Port Hastings
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Port Hawkesbury is a town of 3,200 people on the southwestern end of Cape Breton Island, on the north shore of the Strait of Canso.
Glace Bay
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Glace Bay is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Chéticamp
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Chéticamp is a village of 4,000 people on the coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
Louisbourg
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Louisbourg is a village of 1,000 people on the south-east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
Pleasant Bay
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Pleasant Bay is the whale watching capital of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.
Ingonish
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Ingonish, Ingonish Beach, Ingonish Ferry, Ingonish Centre and South Ingonish Harbour are five small tourist settlements on the northwestern corner of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, next to Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
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Cape Breton Island
- Type: Island with 132,000 residents
- Description: island in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Location: Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
46.1668° or 46° 10' 1" northLongitude of centre
-60.7485° or 60° 44' 55" westPopulation
132,000Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)GeoNames ID
5980615Wikidata ID
Q188489Cape Breton Island Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kaap-Breton-eiland
- Arabic: Cabo Breton
- Arabic: جزيرة كيب بريتون
- Armenian: Քեյփ Բրեթոն
- Armenian: Քեյփ Բրետոն
- Asturian: Islla Cáu Bretón
- Asturian: Islla del Cabu Bretón
- Atikamekw: Île du Cap-Breton
- Azerbaijani: Keyp-Breton
- Azerbaijani: Keyp-Breton adası
- Basque: Bretainiar Lurmuturra uhartea
- Basque: Cap-Breton uhartea
- Basque: Cape Breton Island
- Basque: Cape Breton uhartea
- Basque: Île du Cap-Breton
- Bavarian: Cape Breton Island
- Bavarian: Kap Breton Insl
- Belarusian: Кейп-Брэтан
- Breton: Enez ar C'hab Breton
- Bulgarian: Кейп Бретон
- Catalan: Cap Breton
- Catalan: Cap Bretó
- Catalan: Cape Breton
- Catalan: Illa de Cap Bretó
- Catalan: Illa del Cap Bretó
- Catalan: illa del Cap Bretó
- Cebuano: Cape Breton Island
- Cebuano: Île du Cap-Breton (pulo sa Canada)
- Chinese: Breton Hái-phīⁿ Tó
- Chinese: 布雷頓角
- Chinese: 布雷頓角島
- Chinese: 布雷顿角岛
- Croatian: Cape Breton
- Croatian: Cape Breton Island
- Croatian: Otok Cape Breton
- Czech: Cape Breton
- Danish: Cape Breton
- Danish: Cape Breton Island
- Danish: Cape Breton Øen
- Danish: Kap Breton
- Dutch: Cape Breton-eiland
- Dutch: Cape Breton Island
- Dutch: Cape Bretoneiland
- Dutch: Île du Cap-Breton
- Egyptian Arabic: جزيره كيب بريتون
- English: Île du Cap-Breton
- Esperanto: Insulo de Breton-Kabo
- Estonian: Cape Breton
- Finnish: Cape Breton
- Finnish: Cape Breton Island
- Finnish: Cape Bretonin saari
- French: Cap-Breton
- French: Cap Breton
- French: Cape Breton
- French: DEVCO
- French: Ile du Cap-Breton
- French: Île-du-Cap-Breton
- French: Île du Cap-Breton
- French: Île du Cap Breton
- French: île du Cap-Breton
- Galician: Illa Cape Breton
- Galician: Illa de Cabo Bretón
- Georgian: კეიპ-ბრეტონი
- German: Cape-Breton-Insel
- German: Cape Breton
- German: Cape Breton Island
- German: Kap-Breton-Insel
- German: Kap Breton
- Greek: Κέιπ Μπρετόν
- Hebrew: האי קייפ ברטון
- Hebrew: קייפ ברטון
- Hungarian: Breton-foki-sziget
- Iloko: Isla Rawis Breton
- Indonesian: Pulau Tanjung Breton
- Irish: Cèap Breatuinn
- Irish: Céap Breatuinn
- Irish: Oileán Cheap Bhreatainn
- Irish: Oileán Cheap Breatainn
- Italian: Cap Breton
- Italian: isola del Capo Bretone
- Japanese: ケープブレトン島
- Japanese: ケープ・ブルトン島
- Japanese: ケープ・ブレトン
- Japanese: ケープ・ブレトン島
- Kazakh: Кейп-Бретон аралы
- Korean: 케이프브레튼 섬
- Latin: Insula Capitis Britonum
- Latvian: Keipbretona
- Lithuanian: Keip Bretono sala
- Manx: Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn
- Min Nan Chinese: Breton Hái-phīⁿ Tó
- Norwegian: Cape Breton
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cape Breton
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cape Breton Island
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cape Breton
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cape Breton Island
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Eilean Cheap Breatuinn
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Île du Cap-Breton
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Únamakika
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Lidwicnæsīeg
- Persian: جزیره کیپ برتون
- Polish: Cape Breton
- Portuguese: Ilha Cape Breton
- Portuguese: Ilha do Cabo Breton
- Portuguese: Ilha do Cabo Bretão
- Romanian: Insula Capul Breton
- Russian: Кейп-Бретон
- Russian: Остров Кейп-Бретон
- Scots: Cape Breton Island
- Scottish Gaelic: Cape Breton
- Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn
- Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn
- Serbian: Кејп Бретон
- Serbo-Croatian: Cape Breton
- Serbo-Croatian: Otok Cape Breton
- Slovenian: Cape Breton
- Slovenian: Cape Breton Island
- South Azerbaijani: کئیپ برتون
- Spanish: Isla de Cabo Breton
- Spanish: Isla de Cabo Bretón
- Spanish: Isla del Cabo Breton
- Spanish: Isla del Cabo Bretón
- Swedish: Cape Breton Island
- Swedish: Kap Bretonön
- Swedish: Île du Cap-Breton
- Thai: เกาะเคปเบรตัน
- Turkish: Cape Breton Adası
- Turkish: Cape Breton Island
- Ukrainian: Кейп-Бретон
- Uzbek: Cape Breton oroli
- Vietnamese: Đảo Cape Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Cabo Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Cape Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Cape Breton Island
- Waray (Philippines): Isla han Cabo Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Isla han Cape Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Puro han Cabo Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Puro han Cape Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Purô han Cabo Breton
- Waray (Philippines): Purô han Cape Breton
- Welsh: Ynys Cape Breton
- Western Frisian: Kaap Bretoneilân
- Wu Chinese: 布雷顿角岛
- Isola del Capo Bretone
- 케이프브레턴섬
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