Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia [2] (French: Gaspésie, ; Mi'kmaq: Gespe'gewa'ki), is a peninsula along the south shore of the St. Lawrence River that extends from the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It is separated from New Brunswick on its southern side by Chaleur Bay and the Restigouche River.
www.ville.gaspe.qc.ca Gaspé ( French pronunciation: [ɡaspe] ) is a city at the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of eastern Quebec in Canada. Gaspé is about 650 km (400 mi) northeast of Quebec City and 350 km (220 mi) east of Rimouski .
Located in the eastern part of Canada, and (from a historical and political perspective) part of Central Canada, Quebec occupies a territory nearly three times the size of France or Texas. It is much closer to the size of Alaska. As is the case with Alaska, most of the land in Quebec is very sparsely populated. [1]
Gaspé, Quebec, a city in eastern Canada; Gaspé (electoral district), a past federal electoral district of Canada; Gaspé (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Quebec; Gaspé Bay, a bay located on the northeast coast of the namesake peninsula; Gaspé Peninsula, a peninsula where both the city and district are located
The administrative region of Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine was created on December 22, 1987. It brings together two geographical units: the Gaspé Peninsula (20,102.69 km 2, 7,761.69 sq mi) and the Magdalen Islands archipelago (205.4 km 2, 79.3 sq mi).
The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier international des Appalaches, SIA) was originally a hiking trail which ran from Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it followed a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continued to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle ...
Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. [1]
Forillon National Park, one of 42 national parks and park reserves across Canada, is located at the outer tip of the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec and covers 244 km 2 (94 sq mi). [2] Created in 1970, Forillon was the first national park in Quebec.