Chateau Bay
Chateau Bay
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Location of Chateau Bay in Newfoundland and LabradorChateau Bay (historically also spelled as Chateaux Bay[1]) is a bay and former settlement in Labrador, Canada. Historically it is also sometimes called York Harbour, a name given by James Webb in 1760 when he claimed the harbour for the English.[2] It was surveyed by James Cook in 1763, during his survey of the Strait of Belle Isle aboard HMS Grenville.[3] In August 1766 Joseph Banks arrived in Chateau Bay as a part of a partially scientific journey to study and collect the plants and animals.[4] One of the specimens collected there was the now extinct great auk.[5]
References
- A M Lysaght (1971). Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766; his diary, manuscripts, and collections. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Notes
51°58′48″N 55°53′42″W / 51.980°N 55.895°W / 51.980; -55.895
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