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Red Bay Whaling Station
Red Bay Whaling Station, or Red Bay Basque Whaling Station is is a fishing village located in Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It was a significant whaling center in the 16th century. Red Bay was run by Basque seamen, a Southwestern European ethnic group, and it was an important part of the North Atlantic whaling trade, leaving behind cultural and archaeological relics. Red Bay Basque Whaling Station was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2013.
The site is a UNESCO World Heritage site with the official name, Red Bay Basque Whaling Station.BY Cephas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 13 m
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World Heritage Site
Date of Inscription
2013
16th Century AD
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