Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An extensive area of shoals in the western Atlantic Ocean off southeast Newfoundland, Canada. The mingling of the cold Labrador Current and the warmer Gulf Stream and the shallowness of the water produces heavy fogs and severe storms and has historically made it a highly productive fishing ground.
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- proper noun geography A
large region ofrelatively shallow seabed in thenorthwest Atlantic Ocean , locatedsoutheast ofNewfoundland , which has long served as a majorfishing ground .
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Examples
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Today there is no cod fishery and hardly any cod in the Grand Banks.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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Today there is no cod fishery and hardly any cod in the Grand Banks.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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Today there is no cod fishery and hardly any cod in the Grand Banks.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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Today there is no cod fishery and hardly any cod in the Grand Banks.
Ian Welsh: Carl Safina's View From Lazy Point: Expanding the Circle of Compassion One More Time Ian Welsh 2011
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This map of the area c 11,000 BC shows most of the Maritimes and Newfoundland still under ice, but with large ice-free islands exposed on the Scotian Shelf and Grand Banks and a major iceberg calving channel running through the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
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This map of the area c 11,000 BC shows most of the Maritimes and Newfoundland still under ice, but with large ice-free islands exposed on the Scotian Shelf and Grand Banks and a major iceberg calving channel running through the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
Plenty of Nothing: 2009
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The latest accident occurred on March 12, when a helicopter operated by a subsidiary of Canada's VIH Aviation Group went down while flying to an offshore oil platform in the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, killing 17 people Sikorsky has said it's too early to tell whether the broken studs played a role in the most recent crash.
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The cold Labrador Current runs over the Grand Banks, and when warm air passes over this water, a dense fog forms.
Atlantic Ocean 2008
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The cold Labrador Current runs over the Grand Banks, and when warm air passes over this water, a dense fog forms.
Atlantic Ocean 2008
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He said the ocean is dying: of seventeen global fishing hot spots like the Grand Banks, sixteen have collapsed beyond repair.
The Whale Warriors Peter Heller 2007
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