CANADA ~ Mistaken Point - New Foundland - UNESCO ~

... Fascinating  new Canadian UNESCO site👍... one of the world's greatest fossil sites due to the age, variety, and abundance of fossils found there.... a destination shrouded in mystery and full of intrigue and wonder, where you can walk on strange and ancient rocks and view the place where life began... these spectacularly preserved fossils date back hundreds of millions of years... the oldest-known evidence of Earth's first, large, complex, multicellular life forms... the only way to officially access this site is to take part in a guided tour... the name "Mistaken Point" apparently comes from past shipwreck events in the area due to sailors mistaking this point for another and the difficultly of navigating in the treacherous waters surrounding the point (over fifty ships are known to have been wrecked in the area)... Big Thanks Andrene!! ♥(ˆ⌣ˆԅ) (so sorry to hear your leg still isn't healed😪)

© Barrett and MacKay Photography
Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in eastern Canada.

It covers a total land area of 146 hectares with a buffer zone of 74 hectares and consists of a narrow, 17 km-long strip of rugged coastal cliffs. Of deep marine origin, these cliffs date to the Ediacaran Period (580-560 million years ago), representing the oldest known assemblages of large fossils anywhere. These fossils illustrate a watershed in the history of life on earth: the appearance of large, biologically complex organisms, after almost three billion years of micro-dominated evolution.

Mistaken Point is a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada since 2016.

Stamp:

Prepaid postcard from Post Canada
(Issued 16-01-2017)