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Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Index Gulf of Saint Lawrence

The Gulf of Saint Lawrence (French: Golfe du Saint-Laurent) is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. [1]

70 relations: Anticosti Island, Atlantic Ocean, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador), Bird migration, Bonaventure Island, Brion Island, Cabot Strait, Canadian Coast Guard, Canso Causeway, Cape Bauld, Cape Breton (Nova Scotia), Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Cape Breton Island, Cape Canso, Cape St. Charles, Côte-Nord, Chaleur Bay, Continental shelf, Estuary of Saint Lawrence, First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Forillon National Park, Fortune Bay, French language, Gaspé Peninsula, Government of Canada, Great Lakes, Gros Morne National Park, History of Basque whaling, Humber River (Newfoundland and Labrador), Hypoxia (environmental), International Hydrographic Organization, Island, Jacques Cartier, Kouchibouguac National Park, Labrador, Labrador Peninsula, Laurentian Channel, Magdalen Islands, Margaree River, Mingan Archipelago, Miquelon-Langlade, Miramichi Bay, Miramichi River, Natashquan River, National park, New Brunswick, Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland and Labrador, ..., Northumberland Strait, Nova Scotia peninsula, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island National Park, Quaternary glaciation, Quebec, Quirpon Island, Red Point (Nova Scotia), Restigouche River, Romaine River, Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence Seaway, Saint Pierre Island, Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, St. George's Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador), St. George's Bay (Nova Scotia), St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia), Strait of Belle Isle, Strait of Canso, 1534. Expand index (20 more) »

Anticosti Island

Anticosti Island (French, Île d'Anticosti) is an island in the province of Quebec, Canada at the outlet of the Saint Lawrence River into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, between 49° and 50° N., and between 61° 40' and 64° 30' W.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador

The Bay of Islands is an extensive inlet located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, in Canada.

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Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador)

Belle Isle (French for 'Beautiful Island') is an uninhabited island just off the coast of Labrador and north of Newfoundland at the Atlantic entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle which takes its name.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.

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Bonaventure Island

Bonaventure Island (officially in French: île Bonaventure) is an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence located off the southern coast of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula, southeast of the village of Percé in Canada.

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Brion Island

Brion Island (French: Île Brion) is a currently uninhabited island in the Magdalen Islands archipelago in the middle of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and part of the municipality of Grosse-Île, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, Canada.

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Cabot Strait

Cabot Strait (détroit de Cabot) is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton Island.

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Canadian Coast Guard

The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG; Garde côtière canadienne – GCC) is the coast guard of Canada.

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Canso Causeway

The Canso Causeway (Cabhsair Chanso in Gaelic) is a rock-fill causeway in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Cape Bauld

Cape Bauld is a headland located at the northeasternmost point of Great Northern Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Cape Breton (Nova Scotia)

Cape Breton is a headland located at the eastern extremity of Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

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Cape Breton Highlands National Park

Cape Breton Highlands National Park (official name: Cape Breton Highlands National Park of Canada) (Parc national du Canada des Hautes-Terres-du-Cap-Breton) is a Canadian national park located on northern Cape Breton Island in the province of Nova Scotia.

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Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island (île du Cap-Breton—formerly Île Royale; Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Breatainn; Unama'kik; or simply Cape Breton, Cape is Latin for "headland" and Breton is Latin for "British") is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Cape Canso

This article is about the headland.

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Cape St. Charles

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Côte-Nord

Côte-Nord (French for "North Shore", area 247,633.94 km²) is the second largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec.

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Chaleur Bay

Satellite image of Chaleur Bay (NASA). Chaleur Bay is the large bay in the centre of the image; the Gaspé Peninsula is to the north and the Gulf of St. Lawrence is seen to the east. Chaleur Bay (in French, Baie des Chaleurs) - also known informally in English as Bay of Chaleur due to the influence of its French translation - is an arm of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence located between Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada.

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Continental shelf

The continental shelf is an underwater landmass which extends from a continent, resulting in an area of relatively shallow water known as a shelf sea.

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Estuary of Saint Lawrence

The estuary of the Saint Lawrence in Quebec, Canada is the largest estuary in the world.

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First Nations

In Canada, the First Nations (Premières Nations) are the predominant indigenous peoples in Canada south of the Arctic Circle.

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, frequently referred to as Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), is the department within the government of Canada that is responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters.

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Forillon National Park

Forillon National Park, one of 42 national parks and park reserves across Canada, is located at the outer tip of the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and covers.

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Fortune Bay

Fortune Bay (French: baie Fortune) is a fairly large natural bay located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gaspé Peninsula

The Gaspésie (official name), or Gaspé Peninsula, the Gaspé or Gaspesia, is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River to the east of the Matapédia Valley in Quebec, Canada, that extends into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.

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Gros Morne National Park

Gros Morne National Park is a world heritage site located on the west coast of Newfoundland.

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History of Basque whaling

The Basques were among the first to catch whales commercially, as opposed to aboriginal whaling, and dominated the trade for five centuries, spreading to the far corners of the North Atlantic and even reaching the South Atlantic.

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Humber River (Newfoundland and Labrador)

The Humber River (Mi'kmaq: Maqtukwek) is a river in Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Hypoxia (environmental)

Hypoxia refers to low oxygen conditions.

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International Hydrographic Organization

The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is the inter-governmental organisation representing hydrography.

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Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.

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Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier (Jakez Karter; December 31, 1491September 1, 1557) was a Breton explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France.

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Kouchibouguac National Park

Kouchibouguac National Park ('kʊʃ.ɘ.boʊˌkwæk) is located on the east coast of New Brunswick, in Kouchibouguac.

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Labrador

Labrador is the continental-mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Labrador Peninsula

The Labrador Peninsula is a large peninsula in eastern Canada.

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Laurentian Channel

The Laurentian Channel is a deep submarine valley off the coast of eastern Canada in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

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Magdalen Islands

The Magdalen Islands (les Îles de la Madeleine) are a small archipelago in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with a land area of.

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Margaree River

The Margaree River (Abhainn Mhargaraidh) is a river on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

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Mingan Archipelago

The Mingan Archipelago is an archipelago located east of Quebec, Canada.

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Miquelon-Langlade

Miquelon-Langlade is the larger and less populated of the two communes (municipalities) making up the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located to the south of Newfoundland in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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Miramichi Bay

Miramichi Bay is an estuary located on the west coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick, at the mouth of the Miramichi River.

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Miramichi River

The Miramichi River is a river located in the east-central part of New Brunswick, Canada.

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Natashquan River

The Natashquan is a river in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick; Canadian French pronunciation) is one of three Maritime provinces on the east coast of Canada.

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Newfoundland (island)

Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador (Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Akamassiss; Newfoundland Irish: Talamh an Éisc agus Labradar) is the most easterly province of Canada.

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Northumberland Strait

The Northumberland Strait (French: détroit de Northumberland) is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada.

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Nova Scotia peninsula

The Nova Scotia peninsula is a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; Île-du-Prince-Édouard) is a province of Canada consisting of the island of the same name, and several much smaller islands.

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Prince Edward Island National Park

Prince Edward Island National Park is a National Park of Canada located in the province of Prince Edward Island.

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Quaternary glaciation

The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Quaternary Ice Age or Pleistocene glaciation, is a series of glacial events separated by interglacial events during the Quaternary period from 2.58 Ma (million years ago) to present.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Quirpon Island

Quirpon Island is a small Canadian island off the northeastern tip of Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Red Point (Nova Scotia)

Red Point is a headland located at the southwestern extremity of Cape Breton Island in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

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Restigouche River

The Restigouche River (in French, Rivière Ristigouche) is a river that flows across the northwestern part of the province of New Brunswick and the southeastern part of Quebec.

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Romaine River

The Romaine River is a river in the Côte-Nord region of the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence River (Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.

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Saint Lawrence Seaway

The Saint Lawrence Seaway (la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as the western end of Lake Superior.

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Saint Pierre Island

Saint Pierre Island is one of the three main islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint-Pierre is the capital of the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada.

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St. George's Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)

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St. George's Bay (Nova Scotia)

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St. Paul Island (Nova Scotia)

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Strait of Belle Isle

The Strait of Belle Isle (Détroit de Belle Isle) is a waterway in eastern Canada that separates the Labrador Peninsula from the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Strait of Canso

The Strait of Canso (also Gut of Canso or Canso Strait, also called Straits of Canceau or Canseaux until the early 20th century) is a strait located in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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1534

Year 1534 (MDXXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Saint_Lawrence

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