page_title: Blanc-Sablon, Quebec
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Blanc-Sablon, Quebec / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Les Barachois à Blanc-Sablon, au Québec.
context_page_description: Blanc-Sablon is the easternmost community in Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, in the administrative région of Côte-Nord, in the province of Quebec, Canada. With a population of 1,118 inhabitants, it is the most populous community in the county municipality.
context_section_description: Blanc-Sablon is located on the north coast of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near the entrance of the Strait of Belle Isle. Two significant bays, Brador and Blanc-Sablon, mark its shores and the headland that separates these bays is dominated by Mont Parent, a 100-metre (328 ft) high flat-topped hill named after Martin Parent, a local fisherman in the middle of the 19th century. The municipality borders Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Quebec to the south-west, and L'Anse-au-Clair, Labrador to the north-east.
   The estuary of the Brador River and Blanc-Sablon River has a lagoon designated barachois, separated from the sea by sand or gravel. Seawater enters at high tide.
  The Blanc-Sablon archipelago is located off the coasts of the villages of Blanc-Sablon and Brador and includes Long Island, Lazy Island, Basin Island, Island of the Parrots, Wood Island and Greenly, housing the Bird Sanctuary of Brador Bay.
  The municipality of Blanc-Sablon has several land protrusions into the Gulf of St. Lawrence; from east to west, they are Point Saint-Charles, Morel's Point, Lazy Point , Hunting Point, "À la Barque" Point, Cape Crow and Point Jones.
caption: The "Barachois" in Blanc-Sablon, in Quebec.
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