Cabot Strait
Geographical location
The Cabot Strait (English Cabot Strait, French Détroit de Cabot ) is a facility located in Atlantic Canada strait.
It lies between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island and is by far the widest of the three outputs that connect the St. Lawrence Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean. The other two outputs are the Strait of Canso and the Belle Isle Strait.
The narrowest point of the Cabot Strait is located between Cape North on Cape Breton Island and Cape Ray, Newfoundland, in this section the Cabot Strait measures about 110 kilometers.
History
The strait was named after the Italian navigator Giovanni Caboto, who explored the area around the Cabot Strait in 1497 during an expedition trip in the English order.
Throughout Canadian history, it was a strategically important sea route. Even today it is one of the most important international shipping lanes it is the main ship route of the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway to the inland ports connecting the Great Lakes. The Cabot Strait is crossed by a daily ferry service operated, the two cities Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and North Sydney connects on the Cape Breton Island as a maritime section of the Trans-Canada highways together. The first ferry services across the Strait was established in 1898 and in 1856 an undersea telegraph cable was laid as part of a transatlantic Telegrafiekabelprojektes the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company untger the leadership of Frederick Newton Gisborne.
The St. Paul Island located in the southeastern area of the Cabot Strait had formed a dreaded danger zone for shipping during the sailing age. The often fog-shrouded island had become numerous wrecked ships during this era, which earned her the nickname Graveyard of the Gulf ( meant here is the St. Lawrence Gulf).
The heaviest ship disaster in the Cabot Strait took place on 14 October 1942, when the passenger ferry Caribou was torpedoed by the German submarine U 69, without warning before Channel Head and sank within five minutes. 136 passengers and crew members were killed.
Belle Isle Street | Cabot Strait
- Strait in Canada
- Strait ( Atlantic Ocean)
- Geography ( Nova Scotia )
- Geography ( Newfoundland and Labrador )
- St. Lawrence Gulf