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Notre Dame Bay

Coordinates: 49°45′00″N 54°59′57″W / 49.75000°N 54.99917°W / 49.75000; -54.99917
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Notre Dame Bay is located in Newfoundland
Notre Dame Bay
Notre Dame Bay
Location of Notre Dame Bay in Newfoundland

Notre Dame Bay is a large bay in Newfoundland, Canada. To the south it adjoins the Bay of Exploits.

The name, French for Our Lady Bay, dates to at least 1550, and is possibly a French translation of an earlier Portuguese name.[1]

References

  1. ^ Hamilton, William Baillie (1996). Place Names of Atlantic Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 239. ISBN 0-8020-7570-3.

49°45′00″N 54°59′57″W / 49.75000°N 54.99917°W / 49.75000; -54.99917