St. John's, the provincial capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, is less than 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Bell Island.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by Wikipedia and an independent heritage archive source, both agreeing on the ~20 km east-west distance between St. John's and Bell Island. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.375 clusters=1 claim_tier=everyday] [harvest 2026-09-15: +3 source(s) on new hosts; tier unverified->gold indep=0.838 clusters=4] [kind-backfill 2026-09-15: kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Bell Island (Newfoundland and Labrador) (wikipedia)
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bell-island (corroboration)
- https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/wwii-came-to-bell-island_seconde-guerre-mondiale/gallery/map-of-bell-island-newfoundland-in-1942/ (corroboration)
- https://www.rome2rio.com/s/Bell-Island/St-John-s (corroboration)
- https://www.tourismbellisland.com/getting-here (corroboration)