[1] It is the largest island in the Placentia Bay.
[2] The island had a resident population of several hundred in the town of Merasheen, with an economy based on fishing, until the inhabitants were moved out under the provincial government's resettlement programme, with the last ones leaving in 1968.
[3] Trina Fulford, one half of the comedy music duo Corey and Trina, came from Merasheen Island.
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