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Fogo Island

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Fogo Island (fō`gō), c.100 sq mi (260 sq km), at the entrance to Notre Dame Bay, NE Newfoundland, N.L., Canada. It rises to 382 ft (116 m). The town of Fogo (1991 pop. 1,030) is a fishing port with fish canneries and fox and mink farms.


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The Fogo Island films) as contributions to the evolution of observational cinema; the economic and ideological relationship between government agencies such as the National Film Board and the Canada Council with grassroots production co-operatives in Halifax; the shift from art house to commercial movie culture in Atlantic Canada; and filmmaker Sylvia Hamilton's reflections on the making of her film Portia White: Think on Me.
During my travels I''ve seen these beautiful colours adorning everything from license plates to slabs of rock, including one massive map of the island (in pink, white and green) painted on stone near the Fogo Island ferry.
Along with such obscure, far-flung places as Fogo Island off the west coast of Africa and Pukapuka in the South Pacific, Diego Garcia is not the sort of place to come tripping off the tongue of even the most geographically sophisticated.
 
 
 
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