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BELLE ISLE, STRAIT OF

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 698 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELLE ISLE, STRAIT OF , the more northern of the two channels connecting the Gulf of St Lawrence with the
Atlantic
  Ocean. It separates northern
Newfoundland
  from Labrador, and extends N.E. and S.W. for 35 m., with a breadth of Io to 15 M. It derives its name from a precipitous granite
island
 , 700 ft. in height, at its
Atlantic
  entrance. On this light-houses are maintained by the government of Canada and
constant
  communication with the mainland is kept up by wireless telegraphy. The strait is in the most direct route from Europe to the St Lawrence, but is open only from June till the end of November, and even during this period navigation is often rendered dangerous by floating ice and fogs. Through it Jacques Cartier sailed in 1534. The southern or
Cabot
  Strait, between Cape Ray in
Newfoundland
  and Cape North in Cape
Breton
 , was discovered later, and the expansion below Belle Isle was
long
  known as La Grande Baie.
Cabot
  Strait is open all the year, save for occasional inconvenience from
drift
  ice.


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