Merasheen Island
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Merasheen Island is located in Newfoundland
Merasheen Island
Location of Merasheen Island in Newfoundland
Merasheen Island is an island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. With a length of approximately 35 km and a width at its widest point of 9 km, it is situated about 6 km from Presque.[1] It is the largest island in the Placentia Bay.[2] The island had a resident population of several hundred in the town of Merasheen, with an economy based on fishing, until the inhabitants were moved out under the provincial government's resettlement programme, with the last ones leaving in 1968.[3]
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References
- ↑ John Purdy; Alexander George Findlay (1847). The British American navigator: a sailing directory for the island and banks of Newfoundland, the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence, Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the Bay of Fundy, and the coasts thence to the River Penobscot, etc. London: R.H. Laurie. p. 57.
- ↑ Hamilton, William Baillie (1996). Place names of Atlantic Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 233. ISBN 0-8020-7570-3.
- ↑ "Merasheen". Maritime History Archive. Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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