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Fermont Cabin/Warm up

Québec · Canada0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Fermont Cabin/Warm up in the Côte-Nord/Fermont region, Fermont/Labrador City sector (Newfoundland-Labrador border, Quebec, Canada), at 611 m altitude, Labrador plateau. New Quebec Fermont cluster appeared in batch 338. A heated warm-up shelter cabin (Fermont, the "walled city" of 1974, whose single arc-shaped complex, the Fermont Wall — 1.3 km long, 5 stories, housing 3,000 residents in one structure — shields against -50°C winters and 20 km/h winds), a subarctic tundra zone with the Fire Lake iron mine (IOC, Iron Ore Company, an open-pit mine with 700 Mt of iron reserves, operated by Rio Tinto), Innu heritage (Naskapi, Uashat, Mashteuiatsh, Malioteneam) and QC-Labrador iron production, 70% of Canada's iron output.

The setting

Côte-Nord/Fermont, Newfoundland-Labrador border, Quebec, Canada, 611 m, Labrador plateau, new cluster batch 338, warm-up heated cabin, Fermont Wall 1974, 1.3 km, 5 stories, 3,000 residents, -50°C, 20 km/h winds, subarctic tundra, Fire Lake IOC Rio Tinto 700 Mt iron, Innu Naskapi Uashat Mashteuiatsh Malioteneam, QC-Labrador 70% of Canada's iron.