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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 William Charles Henry Wood

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