Quero Bank

Quero Bank lies among the waters of the Magdalen Islands in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. The archipelago is a chain of low islands and sand dunes surrounded by fishing grounds, exposed to the wind and winter ice of the gulf. Mi'kmaq people visited the islands for fishing and hunting, and Acadian families settled there after the deportations of the eighteenth century. The shallow bank belongs to this island world rather than the deep Atlantic beyond the gulf.