CANADA ~ Mistaken Point - New Foundland - UNESCO ~

... After a short "hiatus"🙃 in blogging due to way to hot weather and a few computer problems I'm back with a bunch of Canadian beauties💚... this postcard shows a group on a guided hike exploring Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve... you can walk on strange ancient rocks and view the place where life began... along scattered pathways of rocks, bays and shorelines overlooking the wide-open ocean... this site is the only place in the world where you can find fossils preserved by volcanic ash of 565 million year-old😲 animals of deep marine origin... Thanks a lot Glenn!【ツ】must have been a fascinating place to visit... more to come!!👍

Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in eastern Canada.The site was first discovered in 1967

It covers a total land area of 146 ha with a buffer zone of 74 ha and consists of a narrow, 17 km-long strip of rugged coastal cliffs.

 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).

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


Photo: Ned Pratt

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Fauna - Bears
(24-07-2019)