Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan is a municipality in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec in Canada. The descriptive name Longue-Pointe refers to a long spit of sand west of the village that has had various names through the centuries: first called Longue Pointe on a map of 1735, followed by the English form of Long Point in the late 17th and early 18th century, then Mingan Point on the map of Captain Carver . James Cook and Placide Vigneau called it Pointe de Mingan and Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan respectively.
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