Anticosti

American  

[an-tuh-kaw-stee, -kos-tee] / ˌæn təˈkɔ sti, -ˈkɒs ti /

noun

1. an island at the head of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in E Canada, in E Quebec province. 135 miles (217 km) long; 3,043 sq. mi. (7,880 sq. km).

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Anticosti British  

/ ˌæntɪˈkɒstɪ /

noun

1. an island of E Canada, in the Gulf of St Lawrence; part of Quebec. Area: 7881 sq km (3043 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

N. B., thence to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence where bad weather disposed of a tentative plan to reach London in five days via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Edinburgh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coleman was on Anticosti for business reasons as well as pleasure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fifty miles from the nearest telephone and 40 times that far from his office, Businessman Sheldon Coleman, 65, last week happily cast for salmon in the upper Jupiter River of eastern Canada's Anticosti Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

If my waking thoughts represented him exactly as I saw him at Anticosti, my sleeping fancies filled up a whole history of his life.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

In the following year he made another voyage, discovered the island of Anticosti, and ascended the St Lawrence to Hochelaga, now Montreal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various