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  • Within Labrador, this ecozone occupies the northernmost section.
  • The largest ecozone, the Boreal Shield, extends in a broad, U-shape from northern Saskatchewan to Newfoundland.
  • A drainage basin, or catchment as it is also called, is the part of the land surface that is drained by a single river system.
  • The Eagle Plateau ecoregion comprises the Mealy Mountains and an area south of Lake Melville in southern Labrador.
  • Newfoundland and Labrador can be divided into three ecozones: Artic Cordillera, Tiaga Shield, and Boreal Shield.
  • The province of Newfoundland and Labrador has ample fresh water, the source of which is abundant precipitation.
  • This ecoregion covers an area west of Lake Melville in southern Labrador.
  • A glimpse into the career of James P. Howley (1847-1918), one of Newfoundland's most important geologists of the 19th and early 20th centuries.