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Cabot Strait

American  

noun

  1. a channel in Canada, connecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the Atlantic Ocean. 68 miles (109 km) wide.


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The first stage—a 70-mile-long cable beneath the Cabot Strait between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia—seemed the easiest.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Traveling across the Cabot Strait, which links the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic, the Marine Atlantic’s MV Blue Puttees took about seven hours.

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2022

A transmission line now being laid under the Cabot Strait will carry some of the surplus to Nova Scotia, bypassing the French-speaking province.

From Economist Aug. 15, 2017

We reached the North Sydney port at midnight, put the car in the bowels of the ferry and climbed up to the deck for the six-hour passage across Cabot Strait.

From New York Times Aug. 11, 2016

He had lost many hands from sickness during a particularly cold season, and he was not enterprising enough to start cruising round Cabot Strait before the month of May.

From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry

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