Île Greenly
| Île Greenly | ||
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| Waters | Gulf of Saint Lawrence ( Atlantic Ocean ) | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 22 '45 " N , 57 ° 11' 25" W | |
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| surface | 1 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Île Greenly ( English Greenly Island ) is a Canadian island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the southwest end of the Belle Isle Strait in eastern Québec near the border with Labrador .
There is a lighthouse and a fishing settlement on the island. The island belongs to the municipality of Blanc-Sablon in the province of Québec .
The rocky ground is covered with herbaceous vegetation. More than a dozen species of sea birds , breed here including Herring Gull , Gull and Ring-billed Gull , several species of terns , the Razorbill , the black guillemot and puffin . Since 1925 Île Greenly has been designated as a bird sanctuary together with Île aux Perroquets .
On April 13, 1928 Hermann Köhl , Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld and the Irish Major James C. Fitzmaurice landed on Île Greenly . With their Junkers W 33 “Bremen” they had successfully completed the first transatlantic flight from east to west.