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Bay of Fundy

noun
1.
A bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet.






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"Bay of Fundy" Quotes from Famous Books



... features to a generally undulating surface, and find their boldest expression in the northern region of the island of Cape Breton. The peninsula of Nova Scotia is connected with the neighbouring province of New Brunswick by a narrow isthmus, on one side of which the great tides of the Bay of Fundy tumultuously beat, and is separated by a very romantic strait from the island of Cape Breton. Both this isthmus and island, we shall see in the course of this narrative, played important parts in the struggle between France and England for dominion in America. This Acadian division possesses ...
— Canada • J. G. Bourinot



Words linked to "Bay of Fundy" :   embayment, bay, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic



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