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Natural Environment: Introduction
Site and Situation
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Once Upon a Mine
Mineral Resources in the 1990s
Manuels Pyrophyllite Mine
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A Case Study
Coastal Erosion
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Commercial Whaling to 1900
20th-Century Commercial Whaling
Seal Fishery: Background
Seal Fishery Equipment, Techniques and Products
Seal Fishery Hunting Methods
Seal Fishery in the 20th Century
Biosphere
Ecozones
Taiga Shield Ecozone
Boreal Shield Ecozone
Arctic Cordillera Ecozone
Ecoregions of Newfoundland
Strait of Belle Isle
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Long Range Mountains
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Central Newfoundland
Northeastern Newfoundland
Maritime Barrens
Avalon Forest
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Ecoregions of Labrador
Torngat Mountains
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Smallwood Reservoir/Michikamau
Mecatina River
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Botanist Agnes Marion Ayre
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