Search results for "Newfoundland (island)" - New World Encyclopedia

colony—a fishing settlement—in Newfoundland, which Cabot claimed on ... mention in any account of how a small island nation embarked on the enterprise ...

of submerged highlands southeast of Newfoundland and east of the Laurentian ... by northeastern Canada particularly Newfoundland. Due to the results of ...

Minorca, Hudson Bay, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Britain was awarded the ... territories in Rupert's Land, Newfoundland, and Acadia. The formerly ...

landed in North America, presumably in Newfoundland, Canada. ... the part of Canada now referred to as Newfoundland. The community lasted ...

off the southern shore of Canada's island of Newfoundland. They are ... Ocean, off the southern coast of Newfoundland, Canada in upper North ...

Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton—formerly île Royale ... Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada ...

in a failed settlement attempt on St. Croix Island. ==Geography== ... sediments) extend from Alabama to Newfoundland. Along certain basins ...

Northern Atlantic, including off the coast of Newfoundland, ... the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cape Breton Island, generally from 45 to 75 ...

Starting on May 10 of that year, he explored parts of Newfoundland ... Roberval and his ships along the Newfoundland coast. Despite Roberval ...

coast of North America. The westernmost island (Flores) actually lies on ... contribution. The mountain of Pico on Pico Island, at 7,713 feet, is the highest ...

*Fiordland, in the southwest of the South Island of New Zealand ... *** Newfoundland & Labrador: Saglek Fjord, Nachvak Fjord, Hebron ...

incorporation of the new province of Newfoundland in 1949. "Frobisher Bay") on Baffin Island, in the east, was chosen ...

are usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic ... a tentacled sea monster as large as an island capable of engulfing and ...

the East Coast; the American lobster ranges from Newfoundland down to about the Carolinas, but is particularly associated with Maine. A typical meal involves ...

Moose have been successfully introduced on the island of Newfoundland ... is easy for moose to slip and fall. In Newfoundland, about 22,000 moose are ...

as the method used to determine what is an island is not necessarily the same ... Gunnison, Goose, Browns, Hat (Bird), Egg Island, Black Rock and White Rock ...

Newfoundland's Grand Banks were fertile fishing grounds and coveted ... and Miquelon, two small islands off Newfoundland, confirming Great Britain ...

|popplace=Canada (New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia ... Later on the Mi'kmaq also settled Newfoundland as the unrelated Beothuk ...

coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic ... Today the area is home to 22 island territories and borders 12 continental ...

Bailiwick of Jersey, which includes the island of Jersey as well as the ... In official Channel Island French, the islands are called Îles de ...

The two island groups are in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of ... The two distinct island groups are separated by the Turks Passage. ...

Baffin Island (Inuit name, Qikiqtaaluk), Île de Baffin Arctic Archipelago. It is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest ...

province in Canada, after Prince Edward Island, with an area of ... as well as parts of Maine, Labrador, Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula ...

512-530 C.E., before his travel to the island of Great Britain. On his ... In his later life, St. Brendan travelled to Wales and the holy island ...

A few reindeer from Norway were introduced to the South Atlantic island ... taiga (boreal forest) from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador and as far ...

at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. This is the first known ... October 12, 1492 and Columbus called the island (in what is now the Bahamas ...

Atlantic Ocean from Foilhommerum, Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Heart ... near Oban, Scotland, and Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was inaugurated ...

foiled at the Battle of Minorca and the island was captured (for which Admiral ... fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island fell in 1758. And on September ...

established themselves in the wild in Newfoundland, Europe, and South America ... in historic times, along with the Falkland Island Fox. It was significantly ...

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island ... While Prince Edward Island did not join Canada until six years after ...

French fishermen to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland throughout that century ... was founded on Saint Kitts in 1625 (the island had to be shared with the ...

Office, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and PEI to, as one historian ... also joined. The last to do so was Newfoundland, in 1949. Macdonald saw ...

some of his treasure on Gardiners Island, hoping to use his knowledge ... Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and Nelson DeMille's ...

exploring and settling as far West as Newfoundland. They also held sway over ... Denmark acquired the island of St. Thomas in 1671, St. Jan (today ...

town of Kingston on the north bank, Wolfe Island in mid-stream, and Cape Vincent ... * from the Île d’Orléans to the Cabot Strait, between Newfoundland ...

Board are located on the western half of island of Montreal, with a few of ... Waterloo, Ontario and Wesleyville, Newfoundland. * Pearson Avenue ...

of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (located south of Newfoundland) in December 1941, Hull lodged a very strong protest and even went as far as referring to ...

Jersey is an island measuring 46 square miles (118.2 square kilometers ... The island is a plateau mantled with wind-blown silt. It has a low ...

For instance, the tsunami which struck the island of Hokkaidō on July 12, ... === 1700 - Vancouver Island, Canada === January 26, 1700 - The Cascadia ...

for Lloyds between Ballycastle and Rathlin Island, Ireland, was conducted in ... at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland (now part of Canada) signals ...

the provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, and to the ... which is located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern ...

The English established fishing outposts in Newfoundland around 1610 ... out of New France and annexed Cape Breton Island to Nova Scotia. It also restricted ...

in 1472. Some claim this land is Newfoundland. Whether or not this is ... Brazil and (thought at that time) Newfoundland to Portugal both in 1500 ...

(Nova Scotia, particularly Cape Breton Island), though there is some overlap ... of Nova Scotia (particularly Cape Breton Island), the French Canadian music ...

In Australia, New Zealand, and Newfoundland it is known as the Gallipoli ... Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India, Newfoundland and others. There are ...

the Norse called Vinland, present day Newfoundland. Settlements in Greenland ... such as John Cabot, who discovered Newfoundland and was sponsored by England ...

V. angustifolium, is found from Newfoundland westward and southward to Michigan and West Virginia. In some areas, it produces natural blueberry ...

ordered forward in support. The 1st Newfoundland Regiment was unable to ... warfare in an attempt to starve the island nation of supplies. Other ...

Great Lakes islands, including Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, the largest ... New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and ...

for animals, most famously for a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain; when ... :: Who was born at Newfoundland, :: May, 1803, :: And died at Newstead Abbey ...

Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New ... The territory once had an Inuit settlement, located on Herschel Island ...

colony—a fishing settlement—in Newfoundland, which Cabot claimed on ... #039;s original claim when he sailed to Newfoundland in 1583 and declared it ...

of northwestern Europe, comprising the island of Iceland and its outlying ... first permanent Norwegian settler on the island. Others had visited the island ...

River in Russia, and as far west as Newfoundland. This period of Viking ... Meadows, a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland, circa 1000 C.E. ...

Quantico, Virginia, Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland, and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.[https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career ...

New England, Virginia, and in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. ... surrendered and were brought to Staten Island.[http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcu ...

when complete, will run to Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador. At 33,215 ... Machias Seal Island and North Rock, off its easternmost point, are ...

at Louisbourg on present-day Cape Breton Island which was intended as a naval ... 039;Anville is said to haunt George's Island, his original burial place ...

#039;s expedition landed on Baffin Island, not far from the town now ... "Frobisher Bay") on Baffin Island. Image courtesy of www.theodora ...

the time encompassing Acadia, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Louisiana). Specific ... a ferry service to Lévis, and Orleans Island Bridge connects Quebec City ...

(German) shore of the lake, off the island of Lindau. The water then ... from Mainz is known as the "Island Rhine." Here a number ...

the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (for provincial ... The island of Montserrat is known as the "Emerald Island of the ...

Columbus' arrival in San Salvador Island in 1492. Native population ... group, native to the province of Newfoundland in Canada, are now completely ...

the traditional land diving on Pentecost Island is reserved for those who ... varied from 29.5 percent on Prince Edward Island to zero in Newfoundland and ...

North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee ... In Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador, the PST ...

mountain range in South America and the Japanese island arc. ... crust converge they typically create an island arc as one plate is subducted ...

across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Newfoundland. two radio stations, located at Gogland island and inside a Russian naval ...

Union of South Africa, New Zealand, Newfoundland) * Greece ... Brenner, the Dalmatian port of Zara, the Island of Lagosta and a couple of ...

being, in order, Zealand and Funen. The island of Bornholm is offset somewhat ... a bridge exists to connect the southern island of Lolland, south of Zealand ...

or independence. Nevertheless, the island's political status remains ... Ireland, the northeast area of the island, remains within the United ...

Both Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island are either wholly or nearly ... up a camp for the winter on Saint Croix Island between New Brunswick and ...

west of the French island of Ushant. The Glorious First of June demonstrated ... to the East Indies, West Indies and Newfoundland as far as Cape Finisterre ...

The Kingdom also includes the Arctic island territories of Svalbard and ... to settle at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada (the "Vinland ...

notes in his Boston Review critique of Station Island: despite its emblems of savagery, Station Island lends no rhetorical comfort ...

ceremony in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give ... provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia being exceptions ...

to the Mississippi River and from Florida to Newfoundland. By forbidding colonists from trespassing on Indian lands, the British government hoped to ...

thousand men garrisoned in New York, Rhode Island, Canada, and Florida; other ... and to grant access to the waters of Newfoundland to France. ...

[[Image:Moken kids.jpg|thumb|left|Moken kids near Surin Island, Thailand]] [[Image:Moken boat.jpg|thumb|250 px|A Moken boat]] The Moken (sometimes ...

Quebec, on the western tip of Montreal island. He spoke English and French ... Lear, to be filmed in the summer, in Newfoundland, under director Des McAnuff ...

obliged to cede the colonies and possessions of Newfoundland, Rupert's Land, and Acadia in the Americas to Great Britain, while retaining Île-Saint ...

coast of mainland Europe. It comprises the island of Great Britain, the north ... Located primarily on the island of Great Britain and in Northern Ireland ...