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    The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a series of underwater plateaus south-east of the island of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf....
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  • The 1929 Grand Banks earthquake (also called the Laurentian Slope earthquake and the South Shore Disaster) occurred on November 18, 1929. The shock had...
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    passed. 1881 – Bank Fishery began and Samuel Harris’s first season on the banks was a success. In short order, a number of other Grand Bankers with schooners...
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    Lost on the Grand Banks (1885) is one of several paintings on marine subjects by the American painter Winslow Homer (1836–1910). Together with The Herring...
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  • The Banks dory, or Grand Banks dory, is a type of dory. They were used as traditional fishing boats from the 1850s on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland...
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  • banks and financial institutions in Nepal licensed by the Nepal Rastra Bank. Commercial banks are rated as Class "A" banks by the Nepal Rastra Bank....
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  • Atlantic Canada located on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. It was the epicenter of the 7.2 magnitude 1929 Grand Banks earthquake. "Earthquake zones in...
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    and understanding of the ocean ecosystem related with Newfoundland's Grand Banks and cod fisheries, as well as technical and environmental challenges...
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    marine ecozone that stretches from the Davis Strait to encompass the Grand Banks, to the Avalon Peninsula on the shores of Newfoundland. It includes all...
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    around the ship on the Grand Banks, and a specimen he collected in Chateau Bay, Labrador, was later identified as the great auk. Banks was appointed to a...
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  • The Ghost from the Grand Banks is a 1990 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story deals with two groups, both of whom are attempting...
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    Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) regulated area on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, just outside Canada's declared 200-nautical-mile (370 km)...
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    Banks Lake is a 27-mile-long (43 km) reservoir in central Washington in the United States. Part of the Columbia Basin Project, Banks Lake occupies the...
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    This list of the oldest banks in World includes financial institutions in continuous operation, operating with the same legal identity without interruption...
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    Flemish Cap (category Undersea banks of the Atlantic Ocean)
    the cap. The waters of the Flemish Cap are deeper and warmer than the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The 58,000-square-kilometre area may have served as...
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    ridge that stretches southeast from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The NAC flows northward east of the Grand Banks, from 40°N to 51°N, before turning sharply...
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    large banks, such as Dogger Bank and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, are among the richest fishing grounds in the world. There are some banks that were...
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    Some pilot boats adopted the rig. The fishing vessels that worked the Grand Banks of Newfoundland were schooners, and held in high regard as an outstanding...
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  • Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks is an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr....
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    productive areas include the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the Scotian Shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the...
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    which extends into the southwestern coast of Newfoundland, near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. St. Pierre is 19 km (12 mi) from Point May on the Burin...
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  • Titanic Canyon is a submarine canyon located south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name was proposed in 1991 by marine geologist Alan...
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  • waters on 15 February 1982. It was drilling an exploration well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, 267 kilometres (166 mi) east of St. John's, Newfoundland...
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  • This is a list of central banks. This is a list of central banks. Countries that are only partially recognized internationally are marked with an asterisk...
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  • National Grand Bank of Marblehead is a bank headquartered in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It was named in honor of the brave "men o’ Marblehead" and their...
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    shows an impressive number of casualties occurred in the vicinity of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. For example, Lady of the Lake sank in 1833 with a loss...
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    Avalon. The peninsula protrudes into the rich fishing zones near the Grand Banks. Its four major bays (Trinity Bay, Conception Bay, St. Mary's Bay and...
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    Brook Taylor, A Camera on the Banks (2006) Wallace's July 1921 article for National Geographic, "Life on the Grand Banks" also contains photographs of...
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    fields are in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin on the eastern edge of the famous Grand Banks fishing territory. SeaRose made her way from the Samsung Heavy Industries...
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    The Grand Bank Sequence is a formation cropping out in Newfoundland. "Newfoundland & Labrador Geoscience Atlas". v t e...
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