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Nov 10, 2023 · Large detailed map of Prince Edward Island with cities and towns. Click to see large. Description: This map shows cities, towns, rivers, lakes, airports, major highways, secondary roads and national parks in Prince Edward Island. You may download, print or use the above map for educational, personal and non-commercial purposes.
Mar 30, 2023 · Map of Prince Edward Island showing major cities, terrain, national parks, rivers, and surrounding countries with international borders and outline maps. Key facts about Prince Edward Island.
List of municipalities in Prince Edward Island. A map of Canada, showing Prince Edward Island in red. Distribution of Prince Edward Island's 72 municipalities by municipal status type as of 2017. Prince Edward Island is the least populous province in Canada with 154,331 residents as of the 2021 census and is the smallest in land area at 5,681. ...
NameMunicipal Status [3] [6]County [2]Incorporation Year [15]18551877 [c]19131995 [d]- Overview
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Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), one of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Curving from North Cape to East Point, “the Island,” as Prince Edward Islanders refer to the province, is about 140 miles (225 km) long, ranging from 2 to 40 miles (3 to 65 km) in width. It lies between 46° and 47° N latitude and 62° and 64° W longitude. To the south and west, the Northumberland Strait separates the island from the mainland provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Its location, along with the island’s fertile red soil, has given Prince Edward Island two nicknames: the “Garden of the Gulf” (referring to the Gulf of St. Lawrence) and the “Million-Acre Farm.” It is also sometimes referred to as “Spud Island” because of its significant potato production.
The aboriginal Mi’kmaq (Micmac) people called the island Abegweit—popularly translated “Cradled on the Waves”—which aptly describes the slender crescent of land nested in the surrounding waters. As part of Acadia during the French regime (1720–58), it was called Île Saint-Jean, but when the British took over they first Anglicized the name to St. John’s Island, then attempted to call it New Ireland, and finally, in 1799, named it for Edward Augustus, the duke of Kent and Strathern, commander of the British forces in North America and one of the sons of King George III of Great Britain. The island became a separate colony in 1769 and has remained what some scholars characterize as a “subnational island jurisdiction” ever since. In 1873 Prince Edward Island became the seventh province of Canada.
Numerous streams, bays, and tidal estuaries indent the irregular coastline. On the north side the bays are generally blocked by dunes, but on the east and south there are good natural harbours. Along the 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of shoreline, red sandstone cliffs average about 20 feet (6 metres) in height but occasionally exceed 50 feet (15 metres). Most of the island is within 5 miles (8 km) of the sea or a tidal inlet, and no spot is more than 10 miles (16 km) from salt water. Water pollution has not been extensive (mainly because of the paucity of heavy industry and of mass manufacturing), but effluents from food- and fish-processing plants, manure, pesticide, and fertilizer runoff, and soil erosion from intensive potato cultivation, as well as oil leakage and sedimentation, have collectively seriously degraded some water resources. Evidence of this can be found in the episodes of massive fish kills in rivers and estuaries that have been reported at least since 1962 and documented since 1994.
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The landscape ranges from rolling hills in central Queens county to level stretches in western Prince county. The highest elevation is 466 feet (142 metres) above sea level in Queens county. The soils, classed as podzols, rest on a sandstone base and are low in plant nutrients and high in acidity. On more than half the island, the red sandy loam is suitable for cultivation.
The climate of the province receives a significant impact from the surrounding ocean, with warmth drawn from the waters in the fall and early winter but then cool air for most of spring and summer. With this “oceanic pump” effect, the onset of the seasons is delayed several weeks when compared with continental Canada. The average mean temperature is in the low 40s F (about 6 °C), and the mean annual precipitation is about 40 inches (1,000 mm). Such mean temperatures, however, conceal some the most variable day-to-day weather experienced in the country. Mean maximum temperature in July is the low 20s C (about 74 °F), while mean minimum temperature in February is about −12 °C (about 11 °F). Measurable snowfalls are common over the long winter season from November to April.
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Prior to European settlement, the mixed forest consisted mainly of beech, maple, pine, hemlock, oak, and spruce, varying according to topography, elevation, and soil drainage. Fragmented successional forest now covers about half the island. Foreign species now include linden, horse chestnut, black walnut, and European mountain ash. Tall trees line town streets as well as country lanes.
Prince Edward Island. Type: State with 140,000 residents. Description: province of Canada. Neighbors: Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Categories: province of Canada, crown colony and locality. Location: Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America. View on OpenStreetMap.
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