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Spotted Island is an island off of the east coast of Labrador. Its south and east shores abut the Labrador Sea and a channel named Domino Run separates it from the Island of Ponds to the south.[5] The island is approximately 4 miles long and 2 miles wide. Its name is due to the alternating black and white cliffs on its east coast.[6]

Spotted Island
Puktuksoak (Inuttitut)[1]
Spotted Island
Puktuksoak (Inuttitut)[4]
Geography
Coordinates53.51°N 55.78°W / 53.51; -55.78
Administration
Canada
ProvinceNewfoundland and Labrador

In 1867 Spotted Island harbour was the scene of a dramatic rescue when William Jackman single-handedly saved 27 people from a ship which had run aground on a reef.[7]

Until 1961 the island was home to a Pinetree Line early warning radar station.[8]


References


  1. http://www.nunatukavut.ca/home/files/pg/11x17_figuresmaps_and_family_trees_for_insertion_into_2010_land_claim_document.pdf [dead link]
  2. http://www.nunatukavut.ca/home/files/pg/11x17_figuresmaps_and_family_trees_for_insertion_into_2010_land_claim_document.pdf [dead link]
  3. http://www.nunatukavut.ca/home/files/pg/11x17_figuresmaps_and_family_trees_for_insertion_into_2010_land_claim_document.pdf [dead link]
  4. http://www.nunatukavut.ca/home/files/pg/11x17_figuresmaps_and_family_trees_for_insertion_into_2010_land_claim_document.pdf [dead link]
  5. Houghton, Frank (27 September 1955). "Nursing Station at Mary's Harbor Replaced First Grenfell Hospital". Ottawa Citizen. p. 21. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
  6. Admiralty Hydrogr. Dept. (1878). The Newfoundland (and Labrador) pilot. p. 407. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  7. "The Heroism of William Jackman". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica-Dominion. 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  8. Clearwater, John (1999). U.S. nuclear weapons in Canada. p. 260. Retrieved 7 December 2011.

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[fr] Île Spotted

L'île Spotted (anglais : Spotted Island) (Île tachetée)[1] (en inuttitut : Puktuksoak) est une grande île située au large de la côte est du Labrador, dans la province de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador au Canada.


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