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Key facts
- Location
- Gulf of Saint Lawrence
- Area
- 7,953.20 km (3,070.75 sq mi)
- Length
- 222 km (137.9 mi)
- Width
- 56 km (34.8 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 306 m (1004 ft)
- Highest point
- Mont de La Hague
- Province
- Quebec
- Region
- Côte-Nord
- County
- Minganie
- Largest municipality
- L'Île-d'Anticosti
- Population
- 177 ( 2021 )
- Criteria
- Natural: viii
- Inscription
- 2023 (45th Session )
- Buffer zone
- 89,740 ha
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Official name
- île d'Anticosti
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- L'Île-d'Anticosti
- Capital
- Port-Menier
- Population
- 177
- Area
- 7941
- Elevation
- 192
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Body of water
- Honguedo Strait
- Owned by
- Government of Quebec
- Image
- Anticosti.jpeg
- Width
- 48
- Length
- 217
- Perimeter
- 530
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- Anticosti Island
- native label
- Natakuan
- topic's main category
- Category:Anticosti Island
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Encyclopedic overview
Anticosti Island ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tikɔsti]) is a large but sparsely populated island belonging to the Canadian province of Quebec. It lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and is separated from mainland Quebec by the Jacques Cartier and Honguedo straits. Administratively, it forms a municipality of the Côte-Nord region.
Toponymy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anticosti Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.