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Egg Island

Geography
Location	Fleuve Saint-Laurent
Coordinates	49.625°N 67.17583°W / 49.625; -67.17583
Administration
Canada
Demographics
Population	0
Additional information
Time zone	UTC-5

Egg Island is an island situated on the north side of the Saint Lawrence River, in the town of Port-Cartier, Quebec. It is a rocky island of 19 hectares that is approximately five kilometres away from the hamlet of Pointe-aux-Anglais and forty kilometres away from the Pointe-des-Monts. The island is mostly covered in balsam fir and includes the fourth largest colony of common eiders in the Estuary of Saint Lawrence as well as a colony of double-crested cormorants.

In 1711, the reefs of the island were subject to the sinking of the Walker Expedition in which 900 of 12,000 of Admiral Hovenden Walker's men perished, marking an end to one British attempt to invade New France.

In 1871, the Minister of Marine and Fisheries constructed a lighthouse on the island. The lighthouse was replaced in 1955, automated in 1970, and ultimately closed in 2003.

Geography

Location

Egg Island is an islet located in the south of the Canadian province of Quebec, approximately 433 kilometres northeast of Quebec City as the crow flies. Located approximately 2.4 kilometres east from the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, it is administratively a part of the town of Port-Cartier. The island is also 5 kilometres south of Pointe-aux-Anglais. Egg Island has an area of approximately 18.7 hectares; it is 1.4 km long from north to south and 400 metres from west to east.

Natural environment

History

Lighthouse in 1940.

Notes and references

[[Category:Geography of Côte-Nord]] [[Category:New France]] [[Category:Islands of Quebec]] [[Category:Islands of the Saint Lawrence River]]