East Point

East Point
East Point
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Pays Drapeau du Canada Canada
Province Drapeau : Île-du-Prince-Édouard Île-du-Prince-Édouard
Comté ou équivalent Kings
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géographiques
46° 27′ 00″ N 61° 58′ 00″ W / 46.45, -61.966746° 27′ 00″ N 61° 58′ 00″ W / 46.45, -61.9667
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Géolocalisation sur la carte : Île-du-Prince-Édouard

(Voir situation sur carte : Île-du-Prince-Édouard)
East Point

East Point est un cap et une communauté dans le comté de Kings de l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard.

C'est la ligne de démarcation pour délimiter la limite est du détroit de Northumberland. Ces rives consistent de très hautes falaises de grès. La Garde côtière canadienne maintient un phare pour aider les vaisseaux.

Naufrages

Entre autres, les vaisseaux suivants ont fait naufrage à East Point:

  • SS Quebec en 1879[1]
  • HMS Phoenix en 1882[1]
  • HMS Assiniboine alors qu'il était remorqué en 1945[2]

Références

  1. a et b Adele Townshend, « The Wreck of the Phoenix », University of Prince Edward Island. Consulté le 2011-07-28
  2. (en) John English, Amazon to Ivanhoe: British Standard Destroyers of the 1930s, Kendal, England, World Ship Society, 1993 (ISBN 0-905617-64-9), p. 46 

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