The island is located at 46'08"N, 63'04"W, approximately 7 kilometres (4 nautical miles) south from Keppoch and 7 km (4 nmi) north from Point Prim.
[1][2] Roughly triangular in shape with an area of 32 hectares (80 acres), the western point of Governors Island was used in the past for a lobster processing facility and the remainder of the land was used as an area to graze sheep and cattle.
Privately owned, the island had a small airstrip developed during the 1960s but has since fallen into disuse.
[4] Governors Island supports a colony of double-crested cormorants with an annual average of about 950 nests.
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