Sept-Îles

[ se-teel ]

noun

1. French name of Seven Isles.

Example Sentences

The mayor of Sept-Iles, a coastal Quebec city, declared a local state of emergency on Friday and ordered 10,000 people to evacuate their homes.

From Reuters

To measure Earth’s magnetic field as it was more than a half billion years ago, University of Rochester geophysicist John Tarduno and colleagues looked at magnetic particles from ancient silicate crystals within a band of igneous rocks called the Sept-Îles Intrusive Suite in Quebec.

From Scientific American

One avenue is determining whether the magnetic field was diminished everywhere in the world at this time or if the phenomenon was localized around the Sept-Îles Intrusive Suite, she notes.

From Scientific American

A Montreal mosque and a Sept-Îles Muslim community center were slightly damaged in separate arson attempts in December, and the head of the Association of Muslims and Arabs for a Secular Quebec received online death threats the month before.

From New York Times

The airships would be used by Quest to provide dedicated air services between the company's Strange Lake complex mine site in Northern Quebec and Schefferville, which has a rail link to the Port of Sept-Iles.

From Reuters