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Bell Island

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Bell Island

Island in Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Canada, 20 km/12 mi west of St John's; length 9 km/6 mi; width 4 km/2.5 mi. It had an iron-ore mining industry centered around Wabana, its largest town (population (1991) 3,600), from the 1890s until the mid-1960s.

Lance Cove, on the south, was the first settlement on the island. In 1942 German submarines sank two ore boats here, in the first action of World War II in Newfoundland.



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