Long Island is located approximately 22 kilometres northwest of Argentia.

The mainstay of the economy of the settlements of Long Island was the fishery.

The communities on the northern end of the island; Spencers Cove, Haystack and Peaches Cove was separated by a 16 kilometre long path through wilderness to Harbour Buffett.

[2] Merchants operating out of Harbour Buffett in the 1800s and 1900s were James Chambers, Thomas Hann and Freeman Wareham.

[2] By the 1970s the entire population of the island had resettled to towns and villages on the mainland portions along Placentia Bay.