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{{dablink|For Cape Verde's Fogo Island see ].}} |
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'''Fogo Island''', the largest of ]'s offshore islands, is off the Northeast Coast of Newfoundland near ] and ]. The ] is about 25 km long and 14 km wide. |
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The island consists of eleven communities and has a population of about 5,000 people. |
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Because the original ] took place in the 18th Century and the area remained isolated well into the twentieth century, the descendants of the first inhabitants retained traces of their Elizabethan dialect which can be heard on the Island today. The Island has many ancient folk customs brought from ] that are disappearing. |
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Fogo Island was once called Y del Fogo, meaning Isle of Fire. There are three theories for the name: |
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•Many huge accidental or natural ]s destroyed the dense forests of the Northern part of the Island. |
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•Europeans continually saw the burning ]s of the ], when they were visiting from across the ]. |
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•The settlers deliberately burned the forests to clear land for ], but ironically lost the soil to spring washouts. |
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==History== |
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"In Cod We Trust" - Fogo, like most of the Newfoundland outports, was built upon the ]. Until the widespread depletion of fish stocks in the ]'s, cod was king. |
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Fishing was a hard life and there was a widespread perception that the mercantile classes of ] were becoming rich by holding a near-] stranglehold on imports to the tiny ]s. |
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On Fogo Island, the general response of fishers to the idea of Water Street in the St John's commercial district holding the largest concentration of ]s while the people of the outports lived in poverty was F.U. |
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The F.U. (or Fishermens' Union) Trading Company was a co-operative; general stores owned by fishermen for fishermen. One of the Fishermens' Union stores still stands at Seldom-Come-By on Fogo Island, open as a museum complete with general store, port installations, fishing implements and equipment for the manufacture of ]. |
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] and ] fisheries have largely replaced the cod fishery; a fish-packing ] remains in operation in Fogo village. |
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A ] radio transmitting station was once operational atop a hill near Fogo village; operating with a ] ] to establish maritime communications, the station was forced to close around the time that radio became common for household use as the spark-gap design generated unacceptable levels of ] ]. Efforts to rebuilt this station as a ] commenced in ]. |
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==Communities== |
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The eleven communities of Fogo Island are: |
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==See also== |
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