Explore Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
Imagery © Google · for orientation only, not for navigation
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Newfoundland and Labrador or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Whitbourne and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Whitbourne.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Whitbourne |
| Type | Town |
| Province / Territory | Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) |
| Location | |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 47.425108 |
| Longitude | -53.541719 |
| Population | 955 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | A0B |
| Area Code | 709, 879 |
| Importance | Town |
| CGN ID | AAZNX |
Whitbourne is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is classified as a town. Whitbourne is located at 47.4251°N, 53.5417°W.
Whitbourne rests with a quiet weight against the rising slopes of the Brazils Hill, where the land holds the crisp, salt-edged air of the island interior. It lies 25.6 km south-west of Bay Roberts, NL (from Bay Roberts, NL: bearing 227°T), and is situated 15.0 km east-south-east of Long Harbour Station. The Rocky River carves a persistent path through the terrain, its currents catching the amber light of late afternoon in a way that turns the dark water into polished bronze. Beyond the immediate reach of the hills, the terrain hums with the low vibration of spruce and granite, a landscape that does not yield easily to the foot but rewards the gaze with sudden, sharp clarity. Here, the sky often settles low, pressing the scent of wet lichen and stone into the senses, grounding every movement in the ancient, unyielding texture of the earth. The history of Whitbourne remains tied to the iron rails that once dictated the movement of people and goods, leaving a legacy of sturdy architecture and a pragmatic, hard-won resilience. While the economic pulse has shifted from the early ambitions of the railway era, the character of Whitbourne persists in the deliberate care residents take with their gardens and the steady, unsentimental upkeep of their homes. Visitors seeking the wider wild may find themselves wandering toward the periphery, where Wester Lake sits in reflective stillness some 12 km away, or venturing 18 km out to the trails of Fitzgerald's Pond Provincial Park. Life here proceeds by the light of the seasons, a cycle felt in the way the wind whistles through the eaves when the frost hardens, marking the passage of time with the simple, honest gravity of a place that knows its own boundaries well.
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Explore Whitbourne, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 47.425108, -53.541719. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Whitbourne includes the postal code (A0B), telephone area code (709, 879). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Whitbourne is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |