| Summary: | newfoundland The Island of Newfoundland stands athwart the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the princi- pal waterway leading into the North American continent. It is about the same size as Iceland (a little over 41,000 square miles), and tri- angular in shape: on the west, the Great Northern Peninsula juts north- ward to Labrador; the southwestern corner reaches toward Nova Scotia (sixty-five miles away) and New England; the eastern tip (the Avalon Peninsula), extends far out into the North Atlantic, only 1, 700 sea miles from the British Isles and on nearly the smae lines of latitude. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit GMS Mar 75 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used
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