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Native name: Old name=Île Crane | |
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Geography | |
Location | Saint Lawrence River |
Coordinates | 47°03′34″N 70°32′35″W / 47.05944°N 70.54306°W |
Archipelago | Isle-aux-Grues |
Length | 7 km (4.3 mi) |
Width | 2 km (1.2 mi) |
Administration | |
Canada | |
Parish municipality | Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues |
Isle-aux-Grues ( French for "island of cranes") is an island situated on the Saint Lawrence River, in the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, in the Montmagny Regional County Municipality (MRC), in administrative region of Chaudière-Appalaches, in Quebec, in Canada.
The Isle-aux-Grues is measuring about 7 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide. However, its dimensions increase to 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) by 4 kilometres (2.5 mi), if including the flats which connect it to Île aux Oies. [1] It is one of the twenty-one islands which make up the Isle-aux-Grues archipelago.
The island has an airstrip which is the only access to the island during the winter. Isle-aux-Grues is also served by a ferry during the summer. [2]
Children from Isle-aux-Grues attend school in Montmagny, Quebec, travelling by plane each day. [2]
On May 19, 2010 at about 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, a Cessna 172 airplane carrying four people crashed on Isle-aux-Grues, killing three people initially. The fourth later died in hospital. [2]
The toponym "Île aux Grues" was made official on December 5, 1968 at the Commission de toponymie du Québec. [1]