Amherst Island

Amherst Island is located in Lake Ontario, 10 kilometres west of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Amherst Island, being wholly in Lake Ontario, is upstream, above the St Lawrence River Thousand Islands. The Island is part of Loyalist Township in Lennox and Addington County. Amherst Island is located about 3 kilometres offshore from the rest of Loyalist Township and is serviced by public ferry from Millhaven. The Island measures over 20 kilometres in length from Bluff Point in the southwest to Amherst Bar in the northeast and over 7 kilometres at its widest point across. The Island is about 66 square kilometres in size and is one of the largest islands in the Great Lakes. ()