Everything about Belle Isle Newfoundland And Labrador totally explained
Belle Isle (French for 'Beautiful Island') is an uninhabited island just off the coast of
Labrador and north of the island of
Newfoundland at the Atlantic entrance to the
Strait of Belle Isle which takes its name. It lies on the shortest shipping lane between the
Great Lakes and
Europe, and also on the main north-south shipping route to
Hudson Bay and the
Northwest Territories.
Belle Isle rises to about 213 m (700 ft) at its highest point, 52 square kilometres in area, 16 km long and 5 km wide, located at. It is nearly 24 km (15 mi) from either coast, though slightly closer to the Labrador side of the Strait of Belle Isle, and has a lighthouse (supported by flying buttresses) at both its northern and southern ends.
Officially uninhabited, there's some seasonal occupation during fishing season.
Belle Isle is the northernmost peak of the
Appalachian Mountains, which extend in various shapes from
Alabama in the
United States over 2000
miles north to
Newfoundland.
Ice patterns show that the island lies at the meeting point of two sea currents: The
Labrador Current flows from the northwest, and a smaller current, driven by dominant westerly winds, flows from the southwest. Flow lines in
sea ice give a sense of the movement of the ice. Ice floes embedded in the
Labrador Current appear as a relatively open pattern. Sea ice with a denser pattern enters from the strait, banking against the west side of Belle Isle.
Tendrils flow around capes at either end of the island, with an ice-free "shadow" on the opposite, downstream side.
Eddies off the western coast in the ice patterns (indicated by curved arrows in the photo) show where the currents interact north and west of the island.
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