White Horse Islet
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | Grand 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]
