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The Aspotogan Peninsula stretches between St. Margarets Bay and Mahone Bay on Nova Scotia's Atlantic coast. Its Mi'kmaw names refer to the narrow passage of the harbor and to seals moving in and out of the water. Forest and rocky shores surround the sheltered coves. In the eighteenth century settlers from Newfoundland, New England and the Lunenburg district joined the Mi'kmaq in the wider peninsula, establishing communities along its many inlets.