Explore Moose Lake, Nova Scotia, 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.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Moose Lake, Nova Scotia. 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 Nova Scotia or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Moose Lake 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 Moose Lake.
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 | Moose Lake |
| Type | Community |
| Province / Territory | Nova Scotia (NS) |
| Location | Victoria |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 46.523295 |
| Longitude | -60.615461 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | B6L |
| Area Code | 782, 902 |
| Importance | Small locality |
| CGN ID | CBVFZ |
Moose Lake is a community in Victoria, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is classified as a small locality. Moose Lake is located at 46.5233°N, 60.6155°W.
Moose Lake rests within the rugged, high-relief terrain of northern Victoria, where the dense boreal forest clings to the steep slopes of the Cape Breton Highlands. It lies 32.6 km east-south-east of Chéticamp, NS (from Chéticamp, NS: bearing 111°T), and is situated 14.4 km north-west of Rear Little River. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity that carries the scent of damp balsam and cooling stone as the light begins to fail, casting long, bruised shadows across the water. While the Ingonish River flows through the lower valleys some 8 km away, the silence at Moose Lake is broken only by the occasional shift of wind through the spruce needles or the sudden, heavy splash of a trout. To the south, the expansive wilderness of Parc national du Canada des Hautes-Terres-du-Cap-Breton stands as a vast, protected barrier about 24 km from these quiet banks. Farther out, the mist gathers near Indian Brook Falls, a destination for those who navigate the wilder reaches of the highlands roughly 16 km from this solitary basin. Economic life near Moose Lake leans into the seasonal shifts of the highlands, where the work of the woods and the stewardship of the land have long defined the daily cycles of the few residents who dwell in these remote reaches. The history of the region is marked by the resilience of those who carved a living from the granite-strewn hillsides, moving with a patience learned from the slow growth of the northern timber. While the modern world presses against the edges of the highlands, the local focus remains on the harvest of the forest and the careful maintenance of the trails that wind through the hills. Near the Indian Rising, the land retains a quiet, stoic character, indifferent to the passage of commerce, and the people here move with a deliberate grace that mirrors the stillness of the deep, dark water of Moose Lake.
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Explore Moose Lake, Nova Scotia, 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: 46.523295, -60.615461. 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 Moose Lake includes the postal code (B6L), telephone area code (782, 902). 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 Moose Lake 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) |