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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. The...
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  • The earthquake was centred on the edge of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) south of the island. It was felt as far away as...
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  • Laurentian Slope Seismic Zone (category Geology of Newfoundland and Labrador)
    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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  • 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. The...
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    nutrient-rich currents.[how?] Because of this, some large banks, such as Dogger Bank and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, are among the richest fishing grounds...
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    Grand Bank or 'Grand Banc' as the first French settlers pronounced it, is a small rural town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, with...
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    fishermen in Newfoundland. In the early 1880s, fishermen and explorers from Ireland and England travelled to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, where they...
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    Great auk (category Birds of Greenland)
    claim of a live individual sighted in 1852 on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland has been accepted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature...
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    chimaera was brought up from 460 fathoms (2,760 ft; 840 m) off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. They range from 60 to 140 cm (2.0 to 4.6 ft) in maximum total...
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    coast of Newfoundland, near the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. St. Pierre is 19 km (12 mi) from Point May on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland and 3,819 km...
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    Flemish Cap (category Landforms of Newfoundland and Labrador)
    circulation current over 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...
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  • Titanic Canyon (category Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador)
    located south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada. Its name was proposed in 1991 by marine geologist Alan Ruffman in remembrance of British passenger...
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    cruisers USS Chester and USS Birmingham to patrol the Grand Banks of Newfoundland for the remainder of 1912. In 1913, the United States Navy could not spare...
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  • called the Fogo Seamount Chain, are a group of undersea mountains southeast of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean. This seamount...
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  • Andrea Gail (category Fishing ships of the United States)
    Gloucester Harbor on September 20, 1991, bound for the Grand Banks of Newfoundland off the coast of eastern Canada. After poor fishing, Captain Frank W....
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  • The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, leaving a developing tropical storm behind them. Initially unsuccessful...
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    Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the Scotian Shelf, Georges Bank off Cape Cod, the Bahama Banks, the waters around Iceland, the Irish Sea, the Bay of Fundy...
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    Atlantic hurricane of 1782 was a hurricane that hit the merchant fleet under British Admiral Thomas Graves in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in September 1782...
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  • lament of a sailor on a voyage from Liverpool to New York, on which one must pass the cold Grand Banks. THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND You bully boys of Liverpool...
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    Gil Eannes (ship) (category Maritime history of Portugal)
    of the Portuguese White Fleet that operated in the codfish fishing in the seas of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and Greenland. As the flagship of the...
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    SS Mesaba (1898) (category Ocean liners of the United Kingdom)
    she had received a series of warnings from other ships of drifting ice in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. One of those ships to send her a...
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    Corte-Real of Portugal visited Newfoundland in 1500, and by 1506 the catch from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland encouraged the King of Portugal to impose a ten...
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  • Ocean Ranger (category Shipwrecks of the Newfoundland and Labrador coast)
    exploration well on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, 267 kilometres (166 mi) east of St. John's, Newfoundland, for Mobil Oil of Canada, Ltd. (MOCAN) with...
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    J. Bruce Ismay (category Directors of the London and North Western Railway)
    possible test of speed if time permitted. After the ship collided with an iceberg 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on the night of 14 April...
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    Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Trebinshun House William Coaker Cod Wars Grand Banks of Newfoundland Banks dory Cod liver oil Sacred Cod Eastern...
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    in the continental shelf running from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to Georges. Georges Bank was part of the North American mainland as recently as...
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    RMS Carpathia (category Ships of the Cunard Line)
    displayed in Europe. Carpathia Seamount, one of the Fogo Seamounts southeast of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean, is named after...
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    North Atlantic Current (category Currents of the Atlantic Ocean)
    Newfoundland Rise, a submarine ridge that stretches southeast from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The NAC flows northward east of the Grand Banks,...
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    Sterling Hayden (category People of the Office of Strategic Services)
    from New London, Connecticut. Later, he was a fisherman on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, ran a charter yacht, and served as a fireman on 11 trips to...
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  • unknown number of killed Cod Wars: one man killed, one man wounded Toledo War: one man wounded Battle of Athens (1946): several wounded Conquest of New Netherland:...
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