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Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, six miles (ten kilometres) north of Chester, on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal. The town had a population of 61,090 in the 2011 census. [2] Ellesmere Port also forms part of the wider Birkenhead urban area, which had a population of 325,264 in 2011. [3]
It forms part of the province of Ontario. The southernmost part of the island lies some 150 metres (164 yards) from the U.S. maritime boundary. The distance to the northernmost point of land in Canada—Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island—is 4,640 kilometres (2,883 miles).
"Public Map Viewer". Ordnance Survey. Cheshire West & Chester "Our Place neighbourhood map" (PDF). Cheshire West and Chester Council. 2010 dead link ] "Topic Paper – Ellesmere Port – 2 National, regional and local context". Cheshire West and Chester Council. 2009 dead link ]
Large portions of Ellesmere Island are covered with glaciers and ice, with Manson Icefield (6,200 km 2 (2,400 sq mi)) and Sydkap (3,700 km 2 (1,400 sq mi)) in the south; Prince of Wales Icefield (20,700 km 2 (8,000 sq mi)) and Agassiz Ice Cap (21,500 km 2 (8,300 sq mi)) along the central-east side of the island, and the Northern Ellesmere ...
The southernmost point is Middle Island, in Lake Erie, Ontario (41°41′N 82°40′W); the southernmost water point lies just south of the island, on the Ontario–Ohio border (41°40′35″N). The southernmost point of the Canadian mainland is Point Pelee , Ontario 41°54′32″N 82°30′32″W / 41.909°N 82.509°W / 41.909 ...
The town of Ellesmere Port had been a municipal borough from 1955 to 1974 with a borough council. [11] The first elections to the new Ellesmere Port Borough Council created under the Local Government Act 1972 were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974.
In 2007, as part of a revival of some industries, ports and shipbuilding in Britain, Ellesmere Port docks were re-opened. In 2008 the site of Ellesmere Port's operational dock - including over 70 acres (280,000 m 2) of the waterfront area (immediately to the north-west of Ellesmere Port Historic Dock and Conservation Area and to the south-east of the Bridgewater Paper Works) - was the subject ...