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Barra Strait
The Barra Strait〔
(【引用サイトリンク】 Geographical Names of Canada - Barra Strait )
〕 is a wide channel located the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It connects the northern and southern basins of Bras d'Or Lake, an inland saltwater body that dominates the centre of Cape Breton Island. The border between two of Cape Breton Island's counties runs through the strait; the community of Grand Narrows, in Cape Breton County, is situated on the eastern shore while the community of Iona, in Victoria County is situated on the western shore.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Nova Scotia Geographical Names Database entry for "Barra Strait" (includes map) )〕
==Grand Narrows==
The Mi'kmaq name for the strait was Taawitk, "where the water flows out." An early descriptive name for the strait, Grand Narrows, has persisted as the name of the neighbouring community on the east bank and as the name of the railroad bridge over the Strait.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia (1967) )〕 "Grand" to distinguish it from the "Little Narrows," on the same Bras d'Or Lake. The Grand Narrows was also known, as far as the Strait is concerned, as the "Barra Strait." This after the Sound of Barra on the Isle of Barra in the Scottish Hebrides, where most of the settlers in this neighbourhood came from about the year 1802.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Place-names of the province of Nova Scotia (1922), by Thomas J Brown )〕 The name, "Barra Strait" was approved November 2, 1950.〔
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