Hawke Island

Hawke Island
	Hawke Island
Geography
Coordinates	53.05°N 55.83°W
Administration
	Canada
Province	Newfoundland and Labrador

Hawke Island is a small island off of the coast of Labrador. There is a harbour on the east side of the island named Hawke Harbour, or sometimes Hawke Bay.[1] The Newfoundland Whaling Company operated a whaling station in Hawke Harbour in the late 1930s.[2] Other inlets include Eagle Cove and Caplin Bay.[3]

References

The London General Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary. W. Baynes & Son. 1825. p. 392.
Dickinson, Anthony Bertram; Sanger, Chesley W. (2005). Twentieth-century shore-station whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador. McGill-Queen's Press.
Blunt, George William (1847). The American coast pilot. Edmund and George W. Blunt. p. 4.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] The London General Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary. W. Baynes & Son. 1825. p. 392.

[2] Dickinson, Anthony Bertram; Sanger, Chesley W. (2005). Twentieth-century shore-station whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador. McGill-Queen's Press.

[3] Blunt, George William (1847). The American coast pilot. Edmund and George W. Blunt. p. 4.