Venison Island is an island off of the coast of
Labrador
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.
The island is separated from
Stony Island by a narrow channel called Venison Tickle and measures 1200
m by 550 m. The island once had a busy wharf and fishing community, a
wireless telegraph
Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is transmission of text messages by radio waves, analogous to electrical telegraphy using cables. Before about 1910, the term ''wireless telegraphy'' was also used for other experimental technologies for ...
station (code VI) and a population of 36 year-round residents in 1901.
References
Islands of Newfoundland and Labrador
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