Cape Breton Island

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noun

an island off SE Canada, in NE Nova Scotia, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Canso: its easternmost point is Cape Breton . Pop: 132 298 (2006). Area: 10 280 sq km (3970 sq miles)

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The fossil was found on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, a location known for difficult and sometimes dangerous fieldwork.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026

Creeks and Carolinians besieged St. Augustine in 1704, and a New England expedition in King George’s War took the massive French fortress of Louisburg on Cape Breton Island in northeast Canada.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Dorothy Cann Hamilton, 67, a food aficionado who started a vocational course that evolved into one of the world’s leading culinary schools, died on Sept. 16 on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2016

Like nearly all Mr. MacLeod’s fiction, “No Great Mischief” is set on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, where he spent his boyhood and maintained a home to the end of his life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2014

This city was on Cape Breton Island, which is close by the coast of Nova Scotia and was a fortress of such great strength, that it was called the Gibraltar of America.

From The Story of Manhattan by Charles Hemstreet

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