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Gulf of Saint Lawrence (French: golfe du Saint-Laurent), the world's largest estuary, is the outlet of North America's Great Lakes via the Saint Lawrence River into the Atlantic ...
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Lawrence ' feast day, Cartier accordingly named it the Gulf of St. Lawrence. [3] The land along the river was inhabited at the time by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians.
St Lawrence, Gulf of
Gulf of St Lawrence, a large (250 000 km 2 ), roughly triangular inland sea receiving on average 10 100 m 3 /s of fresh water from the ST LAWRENCE R at its northwest apex, is ...

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St Lawrence, Gulf of, large arm of the Atlantic Ocean, in eastern Canada. It receives the St Lawrence River and is connected with the Atlantic by the Strait of Belle Isle, Cabot Strait and the Strait of Canso. Islands in the gulf include Anticosti Island, Prince Edward Island (a Canadian province), and the Magdalen Islands. Its deep waters contain good fishing grounds. The Gulf was reputedly visited by explorers before the 16th century, and navigated by Jacques Cartier in 1543.