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Chateau Bay (historically also spelled as Chateaux Bay) is a bay and former settlement in Labrador, Canada. Historically it is also sometimes called York Harbour, a name given by James Webb in 1760 when he claimed the harbour for the English. It was surveyed by James Cook in 1763, during his survey of the Strait of Belle Isle aboard HMS Grenville. In August 1766 Joseph Banks arrived in Chateau Bay as a part of a partially scientific journey to study and collect the plants and animals. One of the specimens collected there was the now extinct great auk.

References

• A M Lysaght (1971). Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766; his diary, manuscripts, and collections. Berkeley, University of California Press.

Notes

1. A 1766 map referring to it as "Chateaux Bay"
2. "Webb, James (biography)". The Governorship of Newfoundland and Labrador.
3. Lysaght, p.68
4. Lysaght, p.47
5. Lysaght, p.168

51°58′48″N 55°53′42″W / 51.980°N 55.895°W / 51.980; -55.895

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