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Gaspé Bay

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Gaspé Bay , deep inlet of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 22 mi (35 km) long and 6 mi (9.7 km) wide, E Que., Canada, at the east end of the Gaspé Peninsula. The village of Gaspé is near its head.


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; Some windless nights on Narragansett Bay, The deep inlet seems a meadow of fireflies As multitudes of the luminous jellyfish Called "comb-bearers" float to the surface For no evident purpose... Read more
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; ...Colonsay. Suddenly the path crosses a tableland of rock to a deep inlet where the sea surges into the first of the two arches - a...past the cave, and eventually cross a tableland of rock to a deep inlet where the sea surges into the first of the two Carsaig Arches... Read more
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; YESTERDAY evening, Helen McKendry's 27-year search for her mother ended. Carlingford is a renowned beauty spot, a deep inlet with neat small beaches and a panoramic view where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the Irish Sea. On one of the strips... Read more
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; ...one day ahead of the sailors on their holidays, who will fill up the anchorages. TONIGHT we are in Bon Accord Bay a large deep inlet in Kawau Island, the rain's on, not very heavy, just a solid drizzle with the capabilities of wetting everything and closing... Read more
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; ...Party, comes from one of the island's marxist villages. Kefalonia's two towns, Lixouri and Argostoli, face each other across a deep inlet. So strong was the rivalry between them that the statue of Andreas Laskaratos, a 19th century poet from Lixouri, was erected... Read more
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; ...the leader of a band of Nuu-chah-nulth Indians who in 1860 had encamped for the summer at the head of the Alberni Canal, a deep inlet that cuts into central Vancouver Island from the Pacific. In August of that year Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, a young British businessman... Read more
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; ...the ubiquitous mopeds for the next stage of my exploration. My venerable map shows a monastery tucked into an intriguingly deep inlet guarded by a tiny isle, something which my new tourist map does not show. I kickstart my machine, leap astride it, shuffle... Read more

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Gaspé
, city (1991 pop. 16,402), E Que., Canada, on Gaspé Bay near the eastern extremity of the Gaspé Peninsula. It is a resort. Cartier landed there in 1534. Read more
Gaspé Peninsula
...the estuary of the St. Lawrence River on the north and Chaleur Bay on the south, and extending eastward into the Gulf of St. Lawrence...bold headlands, is famed for its beauty. The chief towns are Gaspé, Matane, Percé, Chandler, and New Carlisle. Gaspesian Provincial... Read more
Chaleur Bay
...24-40 km) wide, between N N.B. and the Gaspé Peninsula, E Que., Canada. It is the submerged...River, which enters at its head. Chaleur Bay is a famous fishing ground for cod, herring...Acadian fishing villages on both coasts. The bay was discovered and named by Jacques Cartier... Read more
Quebec
...Geography Quebec is bounded on the N by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, on the E by the Labrador area of Newfoundland and Labrador...Brunswick and the United States, and on the W by Ontario, James Bay, and Hudson Bay. Quebec is Canada's largest province; it is three times the...Appalachian Highlands, which ... Read more
Jacques Cartier
...coast of New Brunswick, explored Chaleur Bay, continued around the Gaspé Peninsula, and landed at Gaspé to take possession for France. Continuing...fertile region in New Brunswick and on the Gaspé and of an inlet of unknown extent stimulated... Read more

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