He passed an island which he named St Catherine, and which he warned all mariners to avoid because of dangerous shoals that lay about it.

We find his track again with certainty when he reaches the shelter of the Port of Castles.

The name was given to the anchorage by reason of the striking cliffs of basaltic rock, which here give to the shore something of the appearance of a fortress.

The place still bears the name of Castle Bay.
Sailing on to the west, Cartier noted the glittering expanse of Blanc Sablon (White Sands), still known by the name received from these first explorers.

On June 10 the ships dropped anchor in the harbour of Brest, which lies on the northern coast of the Gulf of St Lawrence among many little islands lining the shore.