White Horse Island
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bay of Fundy |
| Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
| Administration | |
Canada | |
| Province | New Brunswick |
| County | Charlotte |
| Parish | West Isles Parish |
White Horse Island (formerly Penguin Hors) is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay.
The island is considered bare and rocky, 68' high It is considered a "Ecologically and Biologically Significant Area". Its name is a bastardization of "Penguin [White Head] Hors", meaning it was the Outward White Head Island.
There is a geodetic triangulation station placed in 1863, which appeared to have disappeared by 1913. Ernest Ingersoll wrote about it being the entrance to Campobello, by steamship.
In 1929, author Frances Gillmor published "Thumbcap Weir" which was set on a West Isles Parish, New Brunswick island titled "Deadman's Island" which was connected at low tide to a "Thumbcap" which held a herring weir. The island appears to have been modeled off Jouett's Island and Hospital Island and situated impossibly north of Spectacle Islands but south of White Horse Island.