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Mingan Islands
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Mingan Islands (mĭng`gən), group of 15 small islands and many islets, E Que., Canada, in the St. Lawrence River, N of Anticosti island. They were visited (1535) by Jacques Cartier, the French explorer. In 1836 the islands were acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company.
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The amphibious aircraft foundered in rough weather on November 2, 1942, in the waters surrounding what is now the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Canada finds possible US Air Force plane lost in 1942 by AFP / AFP American Edition
In 1996, Quebec ornithologist Yves Aubry of the Canadian Wildlife Service alerted us to the fact that during their homeward flight after the breeding season, red knots were refuelling on the beautiful small islands in the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve, just offshore from Havre St.
The plight of the red knot: how one of the most endangered migratory ... by Baker, Allan J. / ROM Magazine
 
 
 
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