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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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| Instead of lying on a beach and baking, eco-tourists are researching blue whale habitat and activities around the Mingan Islands off Quebec, experimenting with herbal remedies for AIDS in Kenya, biking through the countryside of Southern China and exploring Buddhist monasteries in Ladakh on a trek through the Himalayas. |
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