Port aux Basques
Channel-Port aux Basques is a town of 4,100 people in the southwestern corner of Newfoundland. It serves as the main point of entry for Trans-Canada Highway traffic arriving by ferry from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia…Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Michel Rathwell, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Port aux Basques
- Type: Town with 4,220 residents
- Description: town
- Categories: town of Newfoundland and Labrador and locality
- Location: Western Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
47.5777° or 47° 34' 40" northLongitude
-59.1424° or 59° 8' 33" westPopulation
4,220Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA PBQOpen Location Code
88V2HVH5+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 33943661OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5919815Wikidata ID
Q1013617Port aux Basques Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Basque: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Basque: Port-aux-Basques
- Cebuano: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Chinese: 巴斯克海峡港
- Chinese: 巴斯克港
- Dutch: Channel-Port aux Basques
- English: Channel-Port aux Basques
- French: Channel-Port-aux-Basques
- French: Channel-Port aux Basques
- French: Channel – Port aux Basques
- German: Channel-Port aux Basques
- German: Port aux Basques
- Italian: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Japanese: チャンネル=ポルトー・バスク
- Korean: 채널포트오바스크
- Polish: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Portuguese: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Portuguese: Port-aux-Basques
- Portuguese: Port aux Basques
- Spanish: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Swedish: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Turkish: Channel-Port aux Basques
- Ukrainian: Ченел-Порт-о-Баск
- Port Aux Basques
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- Mouse IslandLocality
- Grand Bay EastLocality
- Grand Bay WestLocality
- MargareeTown, 6 km east
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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 Port aux Basques. Photo: Michel Rathwell, CC BY 2.0.