A letter of intent has been signed by Hibernia Management and Development ... which will be located 196 miles (315 km) offshore Newfoundland on the Grand Banks. The contract includes: provision ...
More than 200 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland — a two-hour helicopter flight — Hibernia could have been a model of isolation. Communication by cellular phones is not an option.
In post-war Newfoundland, incomes were a third of those in Canada and the economy depended on primary industries such as fishing. Pictured here, codfish caught off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland ...