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Definition of Labrador Peninsula
1. Noun. A peninsular region of eastern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea; contains most of Quebec and the mainland part of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Terms within: Labrador
Group relationships: Canada
Generic synonyms: Peninsula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labrador Peninsula
Literary usage of Labrador Peninsula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1916)
"So far as known, forested region of Labrador Peninsula. Description of adult.
Sexes alike. Crown, nape and back mouse-gray slightly tinged with hair brown; ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"The country to the east of Hudson's Bay, embracing the Labrador Peninsula, with
an area of 289000 square miles, owing to the prevalent opinion that it was ..."
3. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1906)
"The Labrador Peninsula has been described as two and one-third times as large as the
... Of the 660000 square miles embraced in the Labrador Peninsula, ..."
4. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"AT Dr. Grenfell's request I have prepared the following list of the mammals of
the Labrador peninsula. As I had before written a list of the mammals of this ..."
5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1898)
"... periods of the Paleozoic era. wr Report on a Traverse of the Northern Part of
the Labrador Peninsula from Richmond Gulf to Ungava Bay. By AP Low. Geol. ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"1896; "Report on a Traverse of the Northern Part of the Labrador Peninsula,"
1898; " Report on the South Shore of Hudson Strait," 1899. ..."
7. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1897)
"... Report of Explorations in the Labrador Peninsula along the East Main, ...
Labrador Peninsula ..."
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