Search results for "Newfoundland (island)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The two island groups are in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of ... The two distinct island groups are separated by the Turks Passage. ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Baffin Island (Inuit name, Qikiqtaaluk), Île de Baffin Arctic Archipelago. It is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest ...21 KB (3,177 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- province in Canada, after Prince Edward Island, with an area of ... as well as parts of Maine, Labrador, Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula ...28 KB (4,053 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- A few reindeer from Norway were introduced to the South Atlantic island ... taiga (boreal forest) from Alaska to Newfoundland and Labrador and as far ...20 KB (2,969 words) - 19:16, 26 November 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- Atlantic Ocean from Foilhommerum, Valentia Island, in western Ireland to Heart ... near Oban, Scotland, and Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was inaugurated ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- established themselves in the wild in Newfoundland, Europe, and South America ... in historic times, along with the Falkland Island Fox. It was significantly ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island ... While Prince Edward Island did not join Canada until six years after ...27 KB (3,922 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- 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 ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- some of his treasure on Gardiners Island, hoping to use his knowledge ... Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and Nelson DeMille's ...26 KB (4,192 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- 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 ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- Board are located on the western half of island of Montreal, with a few of ... Waterloo, Ontario and Wesleyville, Newfoundland. * Pearson Avenue ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,419 words) - 03:02, 8 January 2024
- 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 ...44 KB (6,712 words) - 18:59, 16 October 2022
- For instance, the tsunami which struck the island of Hokkaidō on July 12, ... === 1700 - Vancouver Island, Canada === January 26, 1700 - The Cascadia ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- for Lloyds between Ballycastle and Rathlin Island, Ireland, was conducted in ... at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland (now part of Canada) signals ...27 KB (3,973 words) - 00:54, 7 March 2023
