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Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Belle Isle
(
French
for 'Beautiful Island') is an uninhabited island just off the coast of
Labrador
and north of
Newfoundland
at the Atlantic entrance to the
Strait of Belle Isle
which takes its name. It lies on the shortest shipping lane between the
Great Lakes
and
Europe
, and also on the main north-south shipping route to
Hudson Bay
and the
Northwest Territories
.
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