Four Corners (Canada)
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- This article is about a geographic location in Canada. For analogous locations in other countries and other uses, see Four Corners (disambiguation).
With the creation of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, Canada gained its only "four corners". It is located at the rough intersection of the boundaries of Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, around at 60°00' north, 102°00' west, on the southern shore of Kasba Lake. It is in remote northern wilderness, hundreds of kilometres from any road, railway, or airport.
The point is marked by a metre-high aluminum obelisk. The obelisk was erected in 1962 (before the creation of Nunavut) to mark the intersection of the boundaries of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the District of Mackenzie and the District of Keewatin.
Technically, the site is not a true four corners, as the Northwest Territories-Nunavut boundary is a couple of hundred metres (a few hundred feet) northeast of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba line.
One could also argue that there is a maritime "five corners" in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, at the intersection of Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
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