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White Island (New Brunswick)

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White Island
Geography
LocationBay of Fundy
Administration
Canada
ProvinceNew Brunswick
CountyCharlotte
ParishWest Isles Parish

White Island is an undeveloped island in the West Isles Parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, where the Bay of Fundy enters Passamaquoddy Bay.[1][2][3]

It is composed of coarse red and gray conglomerate with granite boulders[4]

As of 1839, the island was one of four belonging to the Campobello Mill and Manufacturing Company.[5] Fringing shoals 300+ metres offshore.[6]

White Island, and a sill near Campobello's tip, are considered critical to the feeding areas for finback whales in the region.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 166". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  2. ^ "489" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 4 July 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 490, 497, 500, and 501 at same site.
  3. ^ "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
  4. ^ Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress 1870-1871, pgs 82-111, https://archive.org/details/report-of-progress-gsc_1870-1871/page/n5/mode/2up
  5. ^ The Campobello Mill and Manufacturing Company, in New Brunswick, British North America, 1839, https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.21703/9
  6. ^ United States Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast. Eastport to Cape Cod, Volume 1, 1960, pg50 and elsewhere
  7. ^ https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2009/mpo-dfo/Fs97-6-2788E.pdf