Definition of Outport. Meaning of Outport. Synonyms of Outport

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Definition of Outport

Outport
Outport Out"port`, n. A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Outport from wikipedia

- An outport is any port considered secondary to a main port (including a provincial one as opposed to a capital one), and often (especially) a small port...
- An outport is the term given for a small coastal community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Originally, the term was used for coastal...
- Verte and Buchans also contributed to the movement of people away from the outports. World War II also had a part to play when air force bases were built at...
- 1997, pp. 449–450. Hamilton, Lawrence C.; Butler, M. J. (January 2001). "Outport adaptations: Social indicators through Newfoundland's Cod crisis". Human...
- post-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador. Many of the remaining small rural outports were hit by the 1992 cod moratorium. Loss of an important source of income...
- Grandy Island, on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland. It is an outport community. The town is approximately 121 km (75 mi) east of Channel-Port...
- trade pla**** a major role in the city's growth, but for many years the outport of Gl****on Dock, downstream, has been the main shipping facility. Lancaster...
- merchants made the most of it, with the city becoming one of the two leading outports in all of England by the middle of the 18th century. Bristol was the slave...
- 1177/0040517507078023. S2CID 138629386. Ommer, Rosemary Elizabeth (1991). From outpost to outport: a structural analysis of the Jersey-Gaspé cod fishery, 1767-1886. Montreal...
- fisherman who refuses to leave the isolated Newfoundland and Labrador outport town of Sweetland when the provincial government launches a resettlement...