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The island is boomerang-shaped (one end pointing roughly west, the other roughly north). It is the largest island in the Hochelaga Archipelago , and in fact in the entire Saint Lawrence River only Anticosti Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence is larger.

The St. Lawrence widens into Lac Saint-Louis south-west of the island, narrows into the Lachine Rapids, then widens again into the Bassin de La Prairie before becoming the St. Lawrence again and flowing toward Quebec City. Île Sainte-Hélène and Île Notre-Dame are in the Saint Lawrence southeast of downtown Montreal.

The Ottawa widens and becomes Lac des Deux-Montagnes north-west of the island. The Sainte-Anne Canal , between the western tip of the island and Île-Perrot, connects Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Lac Saint-Louis. Another outlet of Lac des Deux-Montagnes, the Rivière des Prairies, flows along the north shore of the island and into the St. Lawrence at the northeastern tip of the island.

The island is approximately 50 km long and 16 km wide at its widest point. It has 266,6 km of coastline. At its centre are the three peaks of Mount RoyalAlternate uses: Mount Royal (disambiguation Mount Royal ( French: mont Royal is a mountain on the Island of Montreal, immediately north of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name. The mountain is part of the Monteregian mount. The south-west of the island is separated by the Lachine CanalThe Lachine Canal is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, through the boroughs of Lachine and Sud-Ouest to the Port of Montreal. It was built in 1824 to permit ship traffic to pass the Lachine Rapids, th between LachineLachine is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Island of Montreal; pop. 35,171 ( Statistics Canada, 1996). On January 1, 2002 it become a borough of the City of Montreal. Lachine, from French la Chine ( China), was named in 1669 in mocker and Montreal's Old Port.

The island of Montreal is the major component of the territory of the city of MontrealMontreal (/mVn. tri"Al/ in English, /mO~. re"al/ in French) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, Canada, where it also constitutes an administrative region. It is Canada's second most populous city after Toronto ( Statistics Canada), and the sec, along with Île-Bizardle Bizard is an island near the Island of Montreal. It was formerly a separate municipality named Saint-Raphael-de-l'Ile-Bizard, but is now part of the city of Montreal. The Jacques-Bizard bridge connects it across the Riviere des Prairies with Sainte-Gen, Île-DorvalL'Ile-Dorval is a former municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in Lac Saint-Louis off of the Island of Montreal. A cottaging spot, it had only two permanent residents, making it the smallest municipality in Canada both in area and population. It wa, Île Sainte-Hélène, Île Notre-Dame, Île des Soeurs, and some 69 smaller islands. The island formerly contained 26 municipalities, all of which were merged into the City of Montreal on January 1January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Here a calendar year refers to the order in which the months are displayed, January to December. The first day of the medieval Julian year was usually a day other, 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom. Some 26% of the population of Quebec live on the island.