Groais Island

Groais and Bell islands lie off Newfoundland's northern peninsula, close to rich fishing grounds in the North Atlantic. The wooded island of Groais and its neighbour were known to European fishermen by the early sixteenth century, despite the fog, foul ground and difficult approaches around them. Jacques Cartier visited the islands on his voyages of 1534 and 1535, and their names appeared on early maps of the coast.