Anticosti Coast

Anticosti stands across the approaches to the St. Lawrence, between the Jacques Cartier Strait to the north and the Honguedo Strait to the south. Limestone cliffs and reefs line much of its long coast, leaving few sheltered anchorages for ships entering the gulf. The island's exposed shores became notorious for wrecks. In 1680 the explorer Louis Jolliet received Anticosti as a seigneury, adding this large and difficult island to his possessions in the St. Lawrence country.