Bruce Peninsula
| Bruce Peninsula | |
 Niagara layer in the Bruce Peninsula National Park |
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| Geographical location | |
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| Coordinates | 44 ° 54 ′ N , 81 ° 15 ′ W |
| Waters 1 | Lake Huron |
| Waters 2 | George Bay |
| length | 90 km |
| width | 20 km |
The Bruce Peninsula ( English Bruce Peninsula ) is located in southwestern Ontario (Canada). It protrudes 90 km in a north-westerly direction into the Huron Sea and separates the western main lake from the eastern Georgsbucht . Their maximum width is around 20 km.
The Bruce Peninsula forms part of the so-called Niagara strata , which continues over the neighboring Manitoulin Island in a westerly direction.
Administratively, the peninsula is in Bruce County .
The Bruce Peninsula National Park , founded in 1987, is located in the extreme northwest of the peninsula. It serves to protect this untouched landscape of rocky coasts and forests as well as the fauna and flora that occur here. To the north of the national park is the Fathom Five National Marine Park , which is not a national park but a National Marine Conservation Area .
Tobermory is at the northwest end of the Bruce Peninsula .
literature
- W. Sherwood Fox: The Bruce Beckons: The Story of Lake Huron's Great Peninsula. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2002, ISBN 978-0-8020-6007-5 .