Amherst Island is an island in Lake Ontario, one of Canada's Great Lakes, located just west of the city of Kingston, Ontario. It is approximately 12km long by 8 km wide and is only accessible by water or air. There is a ferry that transports cars and people running 365 days a year. The trip across takes about 25 minutes.
External link
Amherst Island Home Page (http://www.amherstisland.on.ca/)
To the north of the island is Long Island Sound, which separates it from the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Geologically, the island is formed of two spines of glacial moraine, consisting largely of gravel and loose rock over deeply-buried bedrock, formed during the two most recent pulses of the Wisconsinan glaciation, with a sandier outwash plain beyond.
Technically speaking, the island is actually a peninsula separated from the mainland by the East River, a tidal estuary of the Hudson River.
AmherstIsland is an island in Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ontario.
The island is approximately 70 km² in size, being 20 km long and 7 km at its widest.
The island was later settled by United Empire Loyalists and renamed AmherstIsland in 1792 in honour of Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, who was commander-in-chief of British forces in North America.
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