Bay of Exploits

It extends from the mouth of the Exploits River and opens on to Notre Dame Bay to the north.

The bay probably got its name from early successful encounters with the Beothuk Indians.

Salmon fishing and the fur trade were the main early industries.

[2] The shores of the Bay of Exploits, the Exploits River and Beothuk Lake at its head, were among the last known haunts of the Beothuk people who generally are thought to have become extinct with the death of Shanawdithit in June 1829, though oral histories contend that a few may have survived for a while longer.

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