Port Mouton, Nova Scotia

Port Mouton is a small village along Highway 103 on the southwest coast of Region of Queens Nova Scotia, Canada.

It is about ten miles from Liverpool, the nearest significant community, and 160 kilometres from Halifax.

On May 13, 1604, the French explorers Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain landed at Port Mouton and built a temporary camp at Bull Point.

The village takes its name because a sheep, excited to see land after a long journey, jumped overboard one of the vessels and swam to shore.

A study of the rocks (including a detailed map of the rocky landscape in the Seaside Adjunct) was made by a geology student from Dalhousie University's earth science department in 1988.