The
Canadian
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Grey Islands consist of two islands,
Bell Island and
Groais Island
Groais Island is one of the Grey Islands, Bell Island being the other. It has an area of 41 km2 and is located off Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula to the east in the Atlantic Ocean in Canada. The island is uninhabited, but was used ...
, located off
Newfoundland's
Great Northern Peninsula
The Great Northern Peninsula ( Inuttitut: ''Ikkarumiklua'') is the largest and longest peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada, approximately 270 km long and 90 km wide at its widest point and encompassing an area of 17,483 km2. It is def ...
to the east in the
Atlantic Ocean
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.
Largest of them is the southern Bell Island with an area of 88 km
2. The islands are hilly, rising to over 152 m. (500 ft). The village of Grey Islands Harbour was situated at the southern end of Bell Island; the village of Sandy Cove was on Groais Island. Both islands had been evacuated by the early 1970s.
See also
*
Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte
*
List of islands of Canada
This is an incomplete list of islands of Canada.
Arctic islands
Queen Elizabeth Islands
* Adams Island
*Alexander Island
*Baillie-Hamilton Island
* Bathurst Island
*Borden Island
* Brock Island
* Buckingham Island
*Byam Martin Island
* Cameron ...
Sources
"Grey Islands". The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000.
Islands of Newfoundland and Labrador
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