Historic sites
There are historic settlements aplenty on the Avalon Peninsula. Trinity records European explorers' first encounter with the ancient Beothuk people. Placentia was Newfoundland's French capital in the 17th and 18th centuries. On the west coast of Newfoundland, explore native archaeological history at Port au Choix National Historic Site.

Vibrant St John's
Bustling Water Street in St John's is one of North America's oldest shopping streets. Other sites include the Cathedral of St John the Baptist; Signal Hill, reception point for Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission in 1901, which offers good views; and The Rooms, the landmark provincial museum.

Native communities
Boyd's Cove on the Kittiwake Coast recounts the history of the mysterious Beothuk people. Labrador has two main Innu communities, at Sheshatshiu and Natuashish. The Métis Aboriginal community in Labrador lives mainly around Lake Melville.

Lighthouse life
The Point Amour lighthouse is the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada. Built from 1854 to 1857, it is still a working lighthouse, although now automated. The living quarters house exhibits portraying the maritime history of the Labrador Straits.

Wildlife watch
Enormous herds of caribou roam along the Trans-Labrador Highway. You can also find caribou and black bears in the Avalon Wilderness Reserve.

Coastal landscapes
The scenic rugged coastline of Terra Nova National Park adjoins Bonavista Bay. The Burin Peninsula has beautiful coastal villages. Icebergs float off Cape Freels, and a coastal road runs along the Long Range Mountains affording good fjord, mountain and beach views.

Great Northern Peninsula
The wild, scenic Great Northern Peninsula is renowned for Gros Morne National Park, a blend of rugged mountains, deep fjords and bays. At the peninsula's northernmost tip, UNESCO World Heritage Site L'Anse aux Meadows is the New World's earliest European settlement and features restored Viking sod houses.

Untamed Labrador
To this day, Labrador is still a largely undisturbed wilderness. The Labrador Straits Museum has displays on the Maritime Archaic Indians who built a burial mound nearby at L'Anse Amour around 5500BC. A coastal highway extends along the eastern coastline, linking most Atlantic fishing villages.

Northern Lights
Lucky visitors will catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), which sometimes charge up the skies here, particularly in Labrador. This luminous meteoric phenomenon produces spectacular astral light shows.

Marine life
Newfoundland is rich in marine life and seabird colonies, attracting millions of puffins, gannets, kittiwakes, murres and petrels. Go seabird and whale watching (for humpback, fin and minke whales) by boat or kayak in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve.

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