outport
noun
out·port
ˈau̇t-ˌpȯrt 
1
chiefly British
: a port other than the main port of a country
2
: a small fishing village especially in Newfoundland
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Burnside is a small coastal village, or outport, with perhaps forty or fifty year-round residents, down from three hundred and fifty a generation ago.
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Robert Finch
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
In the 1970s, Conche was a hub for surrounding outport communities, with 600 or so people calling it home.
—Maryam Siddiqi, AFAR Media, 14 Jan. 2025
One of these leviathans, measuring 76 feet long, eventually turned up in the frigid waters of the tiny outport of Rocky Harbour.
—John J. Ross, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2021
Its inhabitants were poor, unemployed, and still living, some of them, in outports that could not be reached by road.
—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
My mother, Ethel Francis Rose Leen, grew up in a tiny Newfoundland outport called Jersey Harbor.
—Melody Rowell, National Geographic, 6 May 2016
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Robert Finch
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
In the 1970s, Conche was a hub for surrounding outport communities, with 600 or so people calling it home.
—Maryam Siddiqi, AFAR Media, 14 Jan. 2025
One of these leviathans, measuring 76 feet long, eventually turned up in the frigid waters of the tiny outport of Rocky Harbour.
—John J. Ross, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2021
Its inhabitants were poor, unemployed, and still living, some of them, in outports that could not be reached by road.
—Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
My mother, Ethel Francis Rose Leen, grew up in a tiny Newfoundland outport called Jersey Harbor.
—Melody Rowell, National Geographic, 6 May 2016
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“Outport.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outport. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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