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426:Northwest Atlantic Marine Ecozone
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218:and the northern coast of
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382:Bernhardt, Torsten.
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312:Cape Breton Island
303:Laurentian Channel
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455:Categories
440:2008-02-09
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369:References
251:freshwater
208:Ungava Bay
184:Baffin Bay
255:Maritimes
170:Geography
79:Geography
352:icebergs
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202:and the
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328:Iceberg
319:Climate
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245:at the
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116:Nunavut
84:Country
58:Borders
53:Ecology
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