White Horse Islet

White Horse Islet
Interactive map of White Horse Islet
Geography
LocationBay of Fundy
Coordinates44°36′9″N 66°48′25″W / 44.60250°N 66.80694°W / 44.60250; -66.80694
Administration
Canada
ProvinceNew Brunswick
CountyCharlotte
ParishGrand Manan Parish

White Horse Islet is an undeveloped island in the Grand Manan Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy.[1][2][3]

It is a nesting place for cormorants, but lacks the cliff structure necessary for kittiwake breeding.[4][5]

Sitting southeast of Little Wood Island,[6] White Horse Islet has a steel navigation aid tower.[7][8]

In 1943, a military plane Ventura GRV FN973 crashed from Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick - and a rubber liferaft was found off White Horse with the body of L.H. Ledgingham who appeared to have escaped the initial wreckage but died at sea.[9]

There are two dangerous sunken rocks off its edge.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "No. 166". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "489" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 4 July 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 490, 497, 500, and 501 at same site.
  3. ↑ "White Horse Islet". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
  4. ↑ "Estimates of Changes in Seabird Numbers in the Grand Manan Archipelago, New Brunswick, Canada". Archived from the original on 2024-12-23. Retrieved 2025-12-10.
  5. ↑ Kehoe, F. Patrick; Diamond, Antony W. (2001). "Increases and expansion of the New Brunswick breeding population of Black-legged Kittiwakes, Rissa tridactyla". The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 115 (2): 349–350. doi:10.5962/p.363799.
  6. ↑ Sailing Directions for Nova Scotia, 1952, US Navy Hydrographic Office
  7. ↑ https://iaac-aeic.gc.ca/052/details-eng.cfm?pid=52175&nav=4
  8. ↑ "Atlantic coast - List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-05-16.
  9. ↑ The Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, NB) - August 19, 1943,
  10. ↑ United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast. Eastport to Cape Cod, Volume 1, 1974
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