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Anticosti Island is a large but sparsely populated island belonging to the Canadian province of Quebec. It lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and is separated from mainland Quebec by the Jacques Cartier and Honguedo straits. Administratively, it forms a municipality of the Côte-Nord region. The area of the island is 7,953.55 km2 (3,070.88 sq mi).

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Anticosti is a natural World Heritage site in Canada, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Anticosti was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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