Map showing the location of Bay of Exploits / Exploits River in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Bay of Exploits / Exploits River

Twillingate / Notre Dame Bay · point

Map location of Bay of Exploits / Exploits River

Books here

  • Cover of River Thieves by Michael Crummey
    settingRiver Thieves

    Michael Crummey

    The publisher anchors the novel's action at the Bay of Exploits and the Exploits River — the historical geography of the Peyton-Beothuk story.

  • subjectThe Way of the Sea

    Norman Duncan

    The DCB essay (a peer-reviewed scholarly source) explicitly identifies Exploits Island as the geographic source of The Way of the Sea; this is the canonical anchor.

References

  1. 1.River Thieves: Penguin Random House Canada, publisher's page for River Thieves
  2. 2.The Way of the Sea: Norman Duncan, The Way of the Sea (1903), framing via Dictionary of Canadian Biography