Island with the Basques
The Île with the Basques is an island located in the estuary of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence, opposite Three-Spray, with the Quebec. Surrounded well by reefs and rocks, she is recognized for the many shipwrecks which marked its history.
Of approximately 2 km length on 400 m of width, this small ground extent hardly exceeds 50 m of altitude. The Basques came to fish there the whale, the Morse and the marine wolf then abundant in the river until Tadoussac. Between 1580 and 1630, they arranged in this island which bears their name several furnaces intended to melt the grease of which Europeans were useful themselves at the time, in particular to light.
Though low-size, the island with the Basques very early drew the attention of the cartographers and the discoverers. In 1537, contours of the island are reproduced, initially on the map of the world known as Harléyenne, then on that of Pierre Desceliers in 1546, then on the chart of the world published by Vallard about 1547. They will be reproduced on the planisphere of Desceliers in 1560, on that of Mercator in 1569 and, finally, on the chart of Samuel de Champlain in 1632.
Since 1929, the island with the Basques, initially conceded in Charles Denys de Vitré in 1687, is the property of the Provancher Company which ensures the conservation of fauna and the flora.
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