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Chedabucto Bay / ˌ ʃ ɛ d ə ˈ b ʌ k t oʊ / is a large bay on the eastern coast of mainland Nova Scotia between the Atlantic Ocean and the Strait of Canso next to Guysborough County. At the entrance to Chedabucto Bay is the community of Canso at the head is the community of Guysborough and on the other end is the town of Mulgrave.
On February 4, 1970 in Chedabucto Bay, off the east coast of Nova Scotia and only 14.6 nautical miles from her destination, she ran hard aground on Cerberus Rock, a well-charted hazard to navigation. The accident occurred mid-morning, halfway between high and low tide, as the tanker was driven by 60-knot southwesterly winds and blinded by a ...
The strait connects Chedabucto Bay on the Atlantic Ocean to St. George's Bay on the Northumberland Strait, a subbasin of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The strait is (200+ feet) deep, with two significant communities at Port Hawkesbury on the eastern side facing Mulgrave on the western side, both ports.
A woman in Washington, D.C., may call it one thing. A guy living off a main square in Mexico City might call it another. But a tug of war over referring to the immense body of water off the coast ...
During King William's War, in 1690, Captain Cyprian Southack proceeded to Chedabucto to take Fort St. Louis which, unlike Port Royal, Nova Scotia, put up a fight before surrendering. [6] As part of Sir William Phips expedition to destroy the capital of Acadia Port Royal , Phips sent Southack to Chedabacto with 80 men to destroy Fort St. Louis ...
Gulf Islands close to Vancouver Island and within the Strait of Georgia within British Columbia; Gulf of Maine, off the States of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts in the United States, and the Canadian Provinces of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean; Gulf of Mexico, between Mexico, the United States, and Cuba
Chedabucto Bay: 2,148 square miles (5,560 km 2) [1] Gulf of Maine: 69,115 square miles (179,010 km 2) Long Island Sound: 16,246 square miles (42,080 km 2) Lower New York Bay: >14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2) [clarification needed - The 14000 value is just the Hudson River drainage] Other notable sub-watersheds
Chebucto Head is a Canadian headland on Nova Scotia's Chebucto Peninsula located within the community of Duncan's Cove.. Chebucto Head forms the most easterly point on the peninsula and is used to define the southwestern limit of Halifax Harbour; historically known to the Mi'kmaq Nation as "Jipugtug", [1] [2] (anglicised as "Chebucto") meaning "the biggest harbour", [3] [4] [5] or simply, "the ...