Amherst, Nova Scotia (can)

Amherst, Nova Scotia

Amherst, Nova Scotia ranks 2,536th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Esch-sur-Alzette, Vila Nova de Gaia, and Oceanside, New York. Memorable people born in Amherst, Nova Scotia include Willard Boyle, Rocky Johnson, and Wyndham Lewis. Amherst, Nova Scotia has been the birth place of many physicists and wrestlers. Amherst, Nova Scotia is located in Canada.

Amherst is a town in northwestern Nova Scotia, Canada, located at the northeast end of the Cumberland Basin, an arm of the Bay of Fundy, and 22 km (14 mi) south of the Northumberland Strait. The town sits on a height of land at the eastern boundary of the Isthmus of Chignecto and Tantramar Marshes, 3 km (1.9 mi) east of the interprovincial border with New Brunswick and 65 km (40 mi) southeast of the city of Moncton. It is 60 km (37 mi) southwest of the New Brunswick abutment of the Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island at Cape Jourimain. Read more on Wikipedia