Brion Island (French: ''Île Brion'') is a currently uninhabited

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in the

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in the middle of the

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and part of the municipality of Grosse-Île,

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. It is the most northeast of the islands in the Magdalen archipelago, apart from the ''Bird Rocks'' (''Rochers aux Oiseaux'') twenty kilometres (12 miles) east-north-east.

History

Passing by the island in 1534, Jacques Cartier erected his second cross and named the island ''ille de Bryon'' after his principal expeditionary patron Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur de Brion and

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Geography

Haldimand Cliff (''Falaise Haldimand''), named for

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, is on the southeast coast of the island.

Natural history

Almost the entire island is encompassed by the ''Réserve écologique de l'Île-Brion''. The ''Bird Rocks'' Federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary encompasses several small islands to the northwest of Brion Island.

References

External links

The Bird Rocks Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Environment Canada
Landforms of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Magdalen Islands Protected areas of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Quebec-geo-stub