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Newfoundland Placenames
Many a visitor to our beautiful province cannot help but comment on some of the place names. Places were named after anything and everything.
Here are some humerous examples!
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Jerry's Nose |
Come-by-Chance |
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Bumble Bee Bight |
Run-by-guess |
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Nancy Oh |
Snake's Bight |
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Nick's Nose Cove |
Blow-me-down |
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Ha Ha Bay |
Bleak Joke Cove |
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Little Looping Harbour |
Joe Batt's Arm |
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Lushes Bight |
Calves Nose |
Some places names are not as happy!
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Gripe Point |
Bad Bay |
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Famine Point |
Wild Bight |
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Confusion Bay |
Wreck Cove |
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Bleak Island |
Breakheart Point |
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Bareneed |
Misery Point |
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Famish Gut |
Empty Basket |
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Savage Cove |
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Some place names showed that the settlers liked their new homes!
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Heart's Desire |
Sweet Bay |
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Heart's Content |
Too Good Arm |
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Heart's Delight |
Little Paradise |
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Safe Harbour |
Harbour Grace |
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Comfort Cove |
Angel's Cove |
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Little Heart's Ease |
Cupids |
Some people were obviously homesick!
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English Harbour |
Frenchman's Cove |
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Portugal Cove |
Jersey Harbour |
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Harbour Breton |
Ireland's Eye |
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Turk's Island |
Spaniard's Bay |
There are many French names (often mispronounced)!
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Bay D'Espoir (locally called Bay Despair) |
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Francois |
Cinq Cerf Bay |
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Bay de Vieux |
L'Anse a L'Eau |
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Chaleur Bay |
La Hune |
These placenames showed lack of imagination!
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Plate Cove |
Traytown |
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Ladle Cove |
Button Island |
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Spout Cove |
Shoe Cove |
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Chimney Cove |
Stocking Harbour |
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Table Cove |
Petticoat Harbour |
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Spoon Cove |
Hatchet Cove |
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Butter Cove |
Sitdown Pond |
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Cape Onion |
Goblin |
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Broom Point |
God Bay |
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Bacon Cove |
Devil Cove |
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Bread Island |
Nameless Cove |
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Rooms |
Harbour Harbour |
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Island Harbour |
Deep Bay |
Of course, places were named after wildlife as they are in many places!
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Lion's Den |
Goose Bay |
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Pigeon Island |
Otter Point |
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Bear's Cove |
Eagle Isand |
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Turr Island |
Dragon Bay |
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Horse Chops |
Gull Island |
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Gander Bay |
Fox Roost |
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Hare's Ears Point |
Cow Head |
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Swan Island |
Goat Island |
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Cat Gut |
Stag Harbour |
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Black Duck |
Muskrat Brook |
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Little Cat Arm |
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And of course, being a fishing province, many names have to do with fishing and the sea!
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Caplin Cove |
Schooner Island |
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Trout River |
Boat Harbour |
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Herring Neck |
Dog Fish Point |
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Rope Cove |
Ship Cove |
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Salmon Cove |
Mooring Cove |
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