🏝️ Île aux Oeufs

Île aux Œufs is an island on the north shore of St. Lawrence River located in Port-Cartier, Quebec, Canada. It is a 19-hectare rocky island resting on a Precambrian bedrock, located two kilometers east of the mainland shore, about five kilometers from the hamlet of Pointe-aux-Anglais and forty kilometers from Pointe-des-Monts. It is mainly covered in balsam fir and includes the fourth-largest colony of common eiders in the St. Lawrence Estuary, as well as a colony of Double-crested Cormorants.