"The brand-new seventh edition of the bestselling comprehensive atlas, featuring over 3200 updated place names and 136 provincial nature reserves and wilderness areas This highly-detailed large format atlas is an invaluable resource. It locates over 15,000 settlements, geographic features, lakes, rivers, and roads. Nova Scotia residents and visitors can explore the province with the aid of hundreds of clearly-marked trails, picnic spots, nature reserves, parks, and more. Every road over 200 metres (paved and unpaved) is included. So are ferry routes, hospitals, hikes, and more. The atlas presents an incredible 2,000 gigabytes of map data--and requires no cell signal or power to access! This new edition incorporates major new highway realignments in Halifax, Antigonish, Barrington, Liverpool and Port Joli. Nearly 1,000 points of reference such as cell phone towers and windmills are now included. It also incorporates, for the first time, the detailed boundaries of the 136 provincial protected areas (70 provincial nature reserves and 66 provincial wilderness areas). In all, the atlas lists and locates 3,288 geographic place names, 4,544 lakes (with depth indicated where known), 3,002 rivers, and 465 provincial and federal protected areas and historic sites. This new edition is also a gateway to a collection of 16,000 high resolution maps which can be downloaded from the Nova Scotia government website for free. The atlas provides the required reference information so that users can quickly identify the right map to download. Printouts in large format of these highly detailed maps are also available through the website."-- Provided by publisher.