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Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre

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Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Fogo Island Marine Interpretation Centre
Phone:
+1 709-627-3366

Address:
Seldom, NL A0G 3Z0, Canada

Fogo Island is the largest of the offshore islands of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It lies off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, northwest of Musgrave Harbour across Hamilton Sound, just east of the Change Islands. The island is about 25 km long and 14 km wide. The total area is 237.71 km2 . The island had a population of 2,706 people in the 2006 census, 2,395 in the 2011 census, and 2,244 in the 2016 census.Though migratory French fishermen visited Fogo Island from the early 16th century until 1718, the first permanent settlement of the island took place in the 18th century. Fogo Harbour and Tilting Harbour were the first settlements on the island. The English and Irish descendants of the first inhabitants retained traces of their Elizabethan English and Old Irish dialects which can be heard on the island today. The island has many ancient folk customs brought from England and Ireland that are now disappearing.
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