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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

This time he passed south of Anticosti and, entering the Atlantic through Cabot Strait, reached St Malo on the 16th of July 1537.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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