Fortune
Fortune is a town of about 1,400 inhabitants in Southern Newfoundland, on the northern shore of the Burin Peninsula. The fishery as the biggest industry. For travellers it's most notable for the passenger ferries to Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Fortune marina…Photo: GRDN711, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Localities in the Area
Grand Bank
Town
Photo: Millerman68, Public domain.
Grand Bank or 'Grand Banc' as the first French settlers pronounced it, is a small rural town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, with a population of 2,580. Grand Bank is situated 6 km northeast of Fortune.
Fortune
- Type: Town
- Description: town in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Categories: town of Newfoundland and Labrador and locality
- Location: Southern Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
47.0727° or 47° 4' 22" northLongitude
-55.8276° or 55° 49' 40" westElevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA FOROpen Location Code
88V635FC+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 4401911790OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5955964Wikidata ID
Q3078545Fortune Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Breton: Fortune
- Bulgarian: Фортуне
- Cebuano: Fortune
- Chinese: 一夜暴富镇
- Corsican: Fortune
- Danish: Fortune
- Dutch: Fortune (Canada)
- Dutch: Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Dutch: Fortune
- English: Fortune, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Esperanto: Fortuno
- French: Fortune
- German: Fortune
- Indonesian: Fortune
- Italian: Fortune
- Japanese: フォーチュン
- Low German: Fortune
- Portuguese: Fortune
- Romanian: Fortune
- Sicilian: Fortune
- Slovenian: Fortune
- Spanish: Fortune
- Swedish: Fortune
- Tahitian: Fortune
- Turkish: Fortune
- Ukrainian: Форчун (Ньюфаундленд і Лабрадор)
- Urdu: فارچون، نیوفاؤنڈ لینڈ اینڈ لیبراڈور
- Форчун
Other Places Named Fortune
In the Area
Fortune is situated close to the town Grand Bank and the locality L'Anse-au-Loup.
- MolliersLocality, 14 km east
- Point MayTown, 21 km south
- CalmerLocality, 21 km south
- High BeachLocality, 21 km south
- LoriesLocality, 21 km southwest
- Mercer's CoveLocality, 21 km north
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Fortune. Photo: GRDN711, CC BY-SA 4.0.