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The station was used for approximately 70 years until:
The whale population was wiped out Disease wiped out the Basque population Whale oil was no longer used by the Europeans because it was considered unethical The Basque mariners migrated north
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Jan 14, 2017
I visited the south coast of Labrador once with my family. I clearly remember seeing this shipwreck and trying to see across the straits to Newfoundland.
The site of one of the largest whaling ports used between 1550 and 1620 by Basque whaling expeditions from France and Spain; well-preserved evidence of the 16th-century whaling activities remain on the site, both on land and submerged in the harbour
Photo: © Zorion, CC-BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons
