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The Strait of Belle Isle (/ b ɛ l ˈ aɪ l / bel EYEL; French: Détroit de Belle Isle [detʁwa d(ə) bɛl il]) [2] is a waterway in eastern Canada, that separates Labrador from the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
On 13 April 2017, Apollo became stuck in ice in the Strait of Belle Isle near Blanc-Sablon, Quebec for nearly 30 hours with 70 passengers on board. The Canadian Coast Guard vessel CCGS Henry Larsen was sent to aid the ferry and escorted Apollo to port once it was free of the ice.
Looking across the Strait of Belle Isle in moonlight from Green Island Brook March 24, 2005. From left to right Point Amour Lighthouse, L'Anse-au-Loup and Capstan Island. The feasibility study into a Newfoundland–Labrador fixed link, resulting from the 2003 election promise by newly elected premier Danny Williams, was released in 2004.
Rail ferries would carry passenger trains and their occupants as well as freight cars, and later sometimes carried automobiles as well. Several of the busiest ferry routes were replaced by bridges or tunnels: Detroit to Windsor, Belle Isle, the Sault Ste. Maries, St. Ignace to Mackinaw City, Port Huron to Sarnia.
Located on Route 430, St. Barbe is also the eastern terminus of the ferry route that connects the island of Newfoundland to Labrador. [4] MV Qajaq services the route across the Strait of Belle Isle and connects to the community of Blanc-Sablon, Quebec (near the Labrador border and Route 510), replacing MV Apollo which serviced the route 1999 ...
The ferry service's main goal is to make up for the 425 km (264 mi) gap in Route 138, which remains unbuilt between Kegashka and Old Fort (in Bonne-Espérance). Blanc-Sablon is also the northern terminus of a ferry service across the Strait of Belle Isle to the island of Newfoundland, mainly serving as a connection with nearby Labrador. [24]
It is the main access route to the Labrador Ferry terminal in St. Barbe. The route passes along the western coast of Newfoundland with views of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Strait of Belle Isle to the west and the Long Range Mountains to the east.
Belle Isle has a marginal subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc), exceptionally cold for a coastal location so far south as the 51st parallel.As an illustration, Dunkirk on the opposite side of the Atlantic averages 11.8 °C (21.2 °F) warmer for the year as a whole, due to the contrasting currents on the eastern and western sides of the Icelandic Low.