The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean ; its eastern coast also forming the western limits of the Cabot Strait.

The colony of Cape Breton Island had its capital at Sydney on its namesake harbour fronting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait.

The Mi ' kmaq Nation is also assumed to have crossed the present-day Cabot Strait at around this time to settle on the south coast of Newfoundland but were in a minority position compared to the Beothuk Nation.

At the cable landing point in Newfoundland the cable joined at Clarenville, then crossed the Cabot Strait by another submarine cable to Nova Scotia.

During the Second World War, the Battle of the St. Lawrence involved a number of submarine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Strait of Belle Isle and Cabot Strait from May to October 1942, September 1943, and again in October and November 1944.

* The Cabot Strait between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island ( 104 km wide and 480 m at its deepest ).

The strait is the northern outlet for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the other two being the Cabot Strait and Strait of Canso.

Cabot Strait (;, ) is a strait in eastern Canada approximately 110 kilometres wide between Cape Ray, Newfoundland and Cape North, Cape Breton Island.

That same year Bishop John T. Mullock, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland, proposed a telegraph line through the forest from St. John's to Cape Ray, and cables across the mouth of the St. Lawrence River from Cape Ray to Nova Scotia across the Cabot Strait.

The first step was to finish the line between St. John's and Nova Scotia and in 1855 an attempt was made to lay a cable across the Cabot Strait in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Marine Atlantic operates ferries across the Cabot Strait on two routes:

" The lake is connected to the North Atlantic by natural channels, the Great Bras d ' Or Channel north of Boularderie Island and the Little Bras d ' Or Channel to south of Boularderie Island, connect the northeastern arm of the lake to the Cabot Strait.

Channel-Port aux Basques ( also Port aux Basques ) is a town at the extreme southwestern tip of the island of Newfoundland fronting on the eastern end of the Cabot Strait.

The vessel's first trip across the Cabot Strait as a passenger vessel was in March 2009.

* Cabot Strait

In 1856, a submarine cable was laid across the Cabot Strait from Aspy Bay to Newfoundland establishing a telegraph link between St. John's, Newfoundland and New York City.

* Cabot Strait between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

: Newfoundland Railway passenger ferry SS Caribou was torpedoed by the U-69, in Cabot Strait

The Highlands are surrounded by water with the Atlantic Ocean on the east, the Cabot Strait to the north and east, the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the north and west, and Bras d ' Or Lake to the south.

St. Paul Island ( AST ) is a small uninhabited island located approximately northeast of Cape North on Cape Breton Island and southwest of Cape Ray on Newfoundland ; it is along the boundary between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Cabot Strait.

The ferry was trying to maintain position to retrieve a body when her stern gates were overpowered by waves ; she sank within 30 minutes taking several rail cars and 4 crew members to the bottom of the Cabot Strait.

Beginning at the point of intersection with the Meridian of 57 degrees West Longitude and the shoreline of the southwest coast, located east of the community of Grey River ; Thence running due north along the Meridian of 57 degrees West Longitude to its intersection with the Parallel of 48 degrees 30 minutes North Latitude ; Thence running west along the Parallel of 48 degrees 30 minutes North Latitude to its intersection with the Meridian of 58 degrees West Longitude ; Thence running in a southwesterly direction to the point of land known as Red Rocks, located on the eastern shoreline of Cabot Strait, north of Cape Ray ; Thence running in a general easterly direction along the sinuosities of the southwest coast to the point of beginning, together with Burgeo Island, Ramea Island and all other islands adjacent thereto.

In 1497, sailing from the north on behalf of England, John Cabot landed on the North American coast, and a year later, Columbus's third voyage reached the South American coast.

Currently, the Cabot School District encompasses the north end of Lonoke County.

It has golf courses adjoining Greystone Country Club in the city's north end, and near Rolling Hills Country Club in southeast Cabot.

Carmel Road in north Lonoke County about 2 miles east of Cabot.

After Cabot arrived in Bristol, he proposed a scheme to the king, Henry VII, in which he proposed to reach Asia by sailing west across the north Atlantic.

A northern segment of begins at U. S. Route 67 / U. S. Route 167 in Cabot and runs north to a concurrency with Arkansas Highway 25 in Heber Springs.

AR 5 begins at US 67 / 167 south of Cabot and runs north to cross AR 89 and AR 319.

However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visited Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island.

This discovery is commemorated by Cape Breton's Cabot Trail, and by Cabot's Landing Historic Site & Provincial Park, located near the village of Dingwall.

The Cabot Trail, circling the Cape Breton Highlands, and Trunk 19, along the western coast of the island, are important secondary roads.

The Cabot Trail is a scenic road circuit around and over the Cape Breton Highlands with spectacular coastal vistas ; over 400, 000 visitors drive the Cabot Trail each summer and fall.

Sydney's accommodation sector is centrally located to attractions in Louisbourg ( home of the Fortress of Louisbourg ), Glace Bay ( home of the Glace Bay Miners Museum ), Baddeck ( home of the Alexander Graham Bell Museum ), as well as popular touring destinations such as the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, and Bras d ' Or Lake.

The Cabot Trail viewed from the Skyline Trail ( Cape Breton Highlands National Park ) | Skyline Trail

It is named after the explorer John Cabot who landed in Atlantic Canada in 1497, although most historians agree his landfall likely took place in Newfoundland and not Cape Breton Island.

The northern section of the Cabot Trail passes through Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

* Cape North, the northernmost point of the Cabot Trail and home of the North Highlands Community Museum.

This coastal route along the Gulf of St. Lawrence is located on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Inverness County and runs from the Canso Causeway in Port Hastings to Margaree Harbor where it intersects with the Cabot Trail.

When Cabot first saw land he ’ s reputed to have said " O Buon Vista " (“ Oh, Happy Sight !”) giving rise to the name of the town and nearby Cape Bonavista.

The explorer John Cabot is believed to have visited present-day Cape Breton in 1497, although this claim is also contested by Newfoundland.

The Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts ( also known informally as the Gaelic College ) is a Canadian educational institution located in the community of St. Ann's on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island along the Cabot Trail.

Chéticamp () is a fishing community on the Cabot Trail on the west coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia at the western entrance to Cape Breton Highlands National Park.

* John Cabot memorial at Aspy Bay Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia