Hawke Island
Hawke Island is a small island off of the coast of Labrador. There is a harbour on the east side of the island named Hawke Harbour, or sometimes Hawke Bay. The Newfoundland Whaling Company operated a whaling station in Hawke Harbour in the late 1930s. Other inlets include Eagle Cove and Caplin Bay.
References
- ^ The London General Gazetteer, or Geographical Dictionary. W. Baynes & Son. 1825. p. 392.
- ^ Dickinson, Anthony Bertram; Sanger, Chesley W. (2005). Twentieth-century shore-station whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador. McGill-Queen's Press.
- ^ Blunt, George William (1847). The American coast pilot. Edmund and George W. Blunt. p. 4.
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