Campobello Island
| Campobello Island | ||
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 44 ° 54 ′ N , 66 ° 56 ′ W | |
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| length | 14.3 km | |
| width | 5.6 km | |
| surface | 39.6 km² | |
| Residents | 872 (2016) 22 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Welshpool | |
Campobello Iceland , French : Île Campobello is in the Passamaquoddy Bay east of Lubec ( Maine location) to Canada owned island in Charlotte County in the province of New Brunswick . About 872 permanent residents (as of 2016) live in the settlements of Welshpool and Wilson's Beach on the slightly less than 40 km² island. Most of them are descendants of loyalists who fled here at the end of the 18th century .
The only year-round road connection on the Canadian island is via the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Bridge to Lubec in the US state of Maine. A domestic connection is the seasonal ferry from Welshpool to Deer Island , which in turn has a year-round ferry connection to mainland Canada.
The island is visited by many US tourists, whose main destination is likely to be the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park . Other attractions on the island include Herring Cove Provincial Park and the East Quoddy Head Lighthouse . The family of the future US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) bought a house in 1883, which they lived in in the summer, Roosevelt himself got a "cottage" with 34 rooms from his mother, on which he lived from the 1930s spent his summer vacations and that contributed to the naming of the bridge connection between the USA and Canada after him.
Individual evidence
- ^ Campobello Island. In: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Accessed March 30, 2020 (English).