Lamèque Island

Lamèque Island (French: Île Lamèque), (formerly Shippegan Island or Shippigan Island),^[3][4] is a Canadian island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the northeastern tip of Gloucester County, New Brunswick.

Big Shippagan Lighthouse

Location	lamèque Island, Shippegan Parish, Canada
Coordinates	47°43′19.82″N 64°39′38.18″W
Tower
Constructed	1872
Construction	wooden tower
Height	16.5 metres (54 ft)
Shape	octagonal frustun tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower, red lantern
Power source	mains electricity
Operator	Canadian Coast Guard[1][2]
Heritage	recognized federal heritage building of Canada
Light
Focal height	16.5 metres (54 ft)
Lens	fourth-order Fresnel lens (original), Barbier, Bernard et Turenne lantern (current)
Range	15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi)
Characteristic	Fl Y 5s.

The island has an area of 150 square kilometres (58 sq mi).^[5] It is separated from mainland North America on the south by the Shippagan Gut with the island forming Lameque Bay, Shippagan Harbour and Shippagan Bay west of this channel. The island is separated from Miscou Island on the north by the Miscou Channel, with both islands forming Miscou Harbour.

The Shippagan Gut is bridged between the town of Shippagan on the mainland to the local service district of Chiasson-Savoy on Lamèque Island by a 1,000-metre (3,300-foot) combination causeway-bridge with a lift bridge over a navigation channel for small craft.

The Miscou Channel is bridged between the community of Little Shippagan on Lamèque Island to the community of Miscou Harbour on Miscou Island by the 2000 metre Miscou Island Bridge.

Ecological Park of the Acadian Peninsula in Lamèque

Lamèque Island and Miscou Island separate Chaleur Bay from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

See also

• Canada portal
• Engineering portal

• List of lighthouses in New Brunswick
• Acadian Peninsula
• Lamèque, New Brunswick
• Shippagan, New Brunswick
• List of communities in New Brunswick
• List of islands of New Brunswick

References

1. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Canada: Northern New Brunswick". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2017-02-24.
2. List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2016.
3. "Shippegan Island". Geographical Names in Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
4. "Shippegan Island". Geographical Names in Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
5. "Statistics Canada Chapter 15, Geography" (PDF). statcan.gc.ca/. Statistics Canada. p. 213. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

External links

• Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival

47°48′47″N 64°37′25″W