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Chasteaulx, Charles Streights and Passage du Nord which a cartographer describes as "subject to Glaces" later in the 16th and during the 17th
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Labrador Prehistory. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, Archaeological Survey of Canada, 1976.
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835:"Vínland and Wishful Thinking: Medieval and Modern Fantasies"
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688:(in French). Commission de Toponymy Quebec. 13 December 1988
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An Archaic Sequence from the Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador
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1232:"N.L. tunnel advocate frustrated by fixed link study"
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85: /
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1263:August 31,
1064:August 31,
845:(3): 503.
814:(2): 76–91
643:References
563:fixed link
551:Fixed link
387:grey seals
362:Cape Bauld
354:Table Head
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475:outports
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358:Labrador
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612:on the
440:sea ice
420:Red Bay
406:Vinland
379:caribou
372:History
327:light,
273:hamlet
267:iceberg
265:Rocks,
73:56°30′W
70:51°30′N
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360:, and
350:French
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116:Canada
104:Strait
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