Nova Scotia
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, one of the three Maritime and one of the four Atlantic
provinces of Canada, bordered on the north by the Bay of Fundy, the province of
New Brunswick, Northumberland Strait, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and on the
east, south, and west by the Atlantic Ocean. consists primarily of a
mainland sec ....
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.... deposits. The Nova Scotia Highlands are composed of three separate areas
of uplands. The western section includes North Mountain, a long ridge of
traprock along the Bay of Fundy; the central section takes in the Cobequid
Mountains, which rise to 367 m (1204 ft) atop Nuttby Mountain; and the eastern
section contains the Cape Breton Highlands, with the province's highest point.
The Annapolis Lowland, in the west, is a small area with considerable fertile
soil. Nova Scotia's fourth region, the ....
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