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Sight Point Nova Scotia Map

Explore Sight Point, 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.

Interactive Map of Sight Point, Nova Scotia

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How to Use This Sight Point, Nova Scotia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Sight Point, 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 Sight Point 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 Sight Point.

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.

PlaceSight Point
TypeCommunity
Province / TerritoryNova Scotia (NS)
LocationInverness
CountryCanada
Latitude46.193987
Longitude-61.408094
Postal Code (FSA)B0E
Area Code782, 902
ImportanceVillage / hamlet
CGN IDCBIRS

About Sight Point, Nova Scotia

Sight Point is a community in Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Sight Point is located at 46.1940°N, 61.4081°W.

Sight Point pushes a jagged, granite-strewn shoulder into the cold Atlantic, where the salt air strips the salt-spray-crusted grasses down to the bedrock. It lies 8.8 km west-south-west of Inverness, NS (from Inverness, NS: bearing 243°T), and is situated 13.6 km north of Mabou. The land here rises toward the Green Hill, a sentinel of earth that catches the low, slanted light of late afternoon and turns the surrounding slopes into bruised shades of violet and ochre. Inland, the landscape holds its breath, waiting for the wind to shift, while the terrain itself feels scraped clean by the persistent, restless pressure of the sea. It is a stark, solitary geography where the horizon is not a line but a vast, shifting weight of grey water meeting an equally heavy sky. The history of Sight Point is bound to the hard, honest work of those who learned to read the tides and the temper of the coast. Local life turns on the cycles of the seasons, far removed from the Broad Cove River, Loch Ban, or the quiet trails of Mabou Provincial Park, each of which lies well beyond the immediate reach of the shoreline. While the economy remains rooted in the traditional rhythms of the harvest and the catch, the people carry a quiet stoicism that echoes the endurance of the surrounding cliffs. Here, the day ends with the sound of the tide pulling at the shingle, a rhythmic, grounding force that persists long after the sun has slipped beneath the waves.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Cape Mabou Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 2.2 km, 162° SSE · 1,457 ha
  • Inverness Miners Museum (Museum) — 8.6 km, 062° ENE
  • Inverness Memorial Consolidated Hospital (Attraction) — 8.7 km, 065° ENE
  • Black River Bog Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 10.0 km, 109° ESE
  • Glendyer Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.7 km, 149° SSE
  • West Mabou Beach Provincial Park (Provincial Park) — 13.0 km, 201° SSW · 275 ha
  • An Drochaid-The Bridge Museum (Museum) — 13.6 km, 175° S
  • Allan J. MacEachen (Monument) — 14.6 km, 180° S
  • Strathspey Performing Arts Centre (Theatre) — 14.7 km, 180° S
  • Old Growth Forest Lands (Old Growth Forest) — 14.8 km, 127° SE
  • Ainslie Point Provincial Park (Provincial Park) — 15.3 km, 102° ESE · 38 ha
  • Masons Mountain Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 17.1 km, 068° ENE
  • MacFarlane Woods Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 19.4 km, 172° S
  • Sea Wolf Island National Wildlife Area (National Wildlife Area) — 20.9 km, 031° NNE · 76 ha
  • Macdonald House Museum (Museum) — 21.6 km, 108° ESE
  • Egypt Falls Trail head (Attraction) — 21.9 km, 089° E
  • Port Hood Station Provincial Park (Provincial Park) — 23.5 km, 204° SSW · 17 ha
  • Trout Brook Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 23.6 km, 118° ESE · 186 ha
  • Southwest Mabou River Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 24.6 km, 178° S
  • Margaree Brook Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 24.9 km, 065° ENE
  • Chimney Corner Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 25.2 km, 047° NE
  • Seven Falls Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 30.8 km, 087° E
  • Humes River Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 31.9 km, 118° ESE · 3,625 ha
  • The Skye River Trail (Attraction) — 32.6 km, 139° SE
  • Bornish Hill Nature Reserve (Nature Reserve) — 32.8 km, 163° SSE
  • Whycocomagh Provincial Park (Provincial Park) — 34.0 km, 136° SE · 196 ha
  • Whycocomagh Picnic Park (Attraction) — 34.3 km, 137° SE
  • Salt Mountain Memorial Park Hugh McLennan (Monument) — 35.1 km, 136° SE
  • Look-Off #2 (Viewpoint) — 35.1 km, 136° SE
  • Middle River Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 35.8 km, 074° ENE · 661 ha

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About This Sight Point Map Page

Explore Sight Point, 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: 46.193987, -61.408094. 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 Sight Point includes the postal code (B0E), 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 Sight Point 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataCanadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)