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Northumberland Strait, the Glossary

The Northumberland Strait (French: détroit de Northumberland) is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada.^[1]

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Bodies of water of New Brunswick
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Abegweit Passage

Abegweit Passage is the narrowest part of the Northumberland Strait, comprising the wide portion between Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick. Northumberland Strait and Abegweit Passage are Bodies of water of New Brunswick, Bodies of water of Prince Edward Island and straits of Canada.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Bell Aliant

Bell Aliant Inc. is a brand name used by Bell Canada for telecommunications services in Atlantic Canada.

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Borden-Carleton

Borden-Carleton is a town in Prince County in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Cap-aux-Meules

Cap-aux-Meules (Grindstone) is a former village, now a sector of the municipality of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec.

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Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island (île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Unamaꞌki) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Cape Jourimain

Cape Jourimain is an area made of two islands and a section of mainland along the southwestern shore of the Northumberland Strait, three kilometres west of New Brunswick's easternmost point at Cape Tormentine.

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Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick

Cape Tormentine is a rural community and former local service district in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada.

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Caribou, Nova Scotia

Caribou is a small rural community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Celsius

The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.

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Charlottetown

Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County.

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CN Marine

CN Marine was a Canadian ferry company headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick.

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Confederation Bridge

The Confederation Bridge (Pont de la Confédération) is a box girder bridge carrying the Trans-Canada Highway across the Abegweit Passage of the Northumberland Strait, linking the province of Prince Edward Island with the mainland province of New Brunswick.

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Coopérative de Transport Maritime et Aérien

The Coopérative de Transport Maritime et Aérien (CTMA) is a Canadian transportation company, formed in 1944 to provide maritime and air links to the Magdalen Islands, Quebec.

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East Point, Prince Edward Island

East Point is a cape and an unincorporated community located at the easternmost extremity of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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Eastlink (company)

Bragg Communications Inc., doing business as Eastlink, is a Canadian cable television and telecommunications company.

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Fahrenheit

The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO; Pêches et Océans Canada, MPO) is a department of the Government of Canada that is responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs in support of Canada's economic, ecological and scientific interests in oceans and inland waters.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait

In Canadian ghostlore, the Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait is a ghost ship said to sail ablaze within the Northumberland Strait, the body of water that separates Prince Edward Island from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in eastern Canada.

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Gotland

Gotland (Gutland in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland, is Sweden's largest island.

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Government of Canada

The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Gulf of St. Lawrence

The Gulf of St.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.

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Iceboat

An iceboat (occasionally spelled ice boat or traditionally called an ice yacht) is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice.

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Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.

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Inverness, Nova Scotia

Inverness (Scottish Gaelic: Baile Inbhir Nis) is a Canadian rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia.

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Marine Atlantic

Marine Atlantic Inc. (Marine Atlantique) is an independent Canadian federal Crown corporation which is mandated to operate ferry services between the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia.

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Maritime Electric

Maritime Electric is the supplier of electricity in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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Murray Corner, New Brunswick

Murray Corner is a community in the Canadian province of New Brunswick in Westmorland County on Route 955.

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NB Power

New Brunswick Electric Power Corporation (Société d’énergie du Nouveau-Brunswick), operating as NB Power (Énergie NB), is the primary electric utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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North Cape (Prince Edward Island)

North Cape is a cape at the northwesternmost extremity of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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Northumberland Ferries Limited

Northumberland Ferries Limited (NFL) is a ferry company operating in eastern Canada and headquartered in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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Nova Scotia peninsula

The Nova Scotia peninsula is a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Nova Scotia Power

Nova Scotia Power Inc. is a vertically integrated electric utility in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Optical fiber

An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other.

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Pictou

Pictou (Canadian Gaelic: Baile Phiogto) is a town in Pictou County, in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

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Pictou Island (Nova Scotia)

Pictou Island is a Canadian island located in the Northumberland Strait approximately north of Nova Scotia and south of Prince Edward Island.

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Point Escuminac

Point Escuminac is a cape located in eastern New Brunswick, Canada.

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Port Hood, Nova Scotia

Port Hood (Mi'kmawi'simk: Kekwiamkek) is an unincorporated place in the Municipality of the County of Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Pugwash, Nova Scotia

Pugwash is an incorporated village in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, located on the Northumberland Strait at the mouth of the Pugwash River.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sea ice

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.

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Seabed gouging by ice

Seabed gouging by ice is a process that occurs when floating ice features (typically icebergs and sea ice ridges) drift into shallower areas and their keel comes into contact with the seabed.

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Shediac

Shediac (official in both languages; Shédiac is colloquial French) is a heavily Acadian town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick.

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Souris, Prince Edward Island

Souris is a town in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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Strait

A strait is a landform connecting two seas or two water basins.

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Summerside, Prince Edward Island

Summerside is a Canadian city in Prince County, Prince Edward Island.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Volt

The volt (symbol: V) is the unit of electric potential, electric potential difference (voltage), and electromotive force in the International System of Units (SI).

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