Highway 162 is a two-lane controlled access highway on Boularderie Island in

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. Highway 162 was constructed in the late 1970s to link Highway 105 in

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to the now-closed Prince Mine at Point Aconi. In the early 1990s the highway was extended another 2 kilometres to terminate at the

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. The highway is long, there is one intersection on the highway near the old Prince Mine site that connects to Point Aconi Road.

Major intersections

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Nova Scotia provincial highways Roads in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Limited-access roads in Canada {{NovaScotia-road-stub