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Ryan Premises National Historic Site
Nearby Ports: BonavistaThis award-winning site in a restored 19th century industrial salt fish complex tells the story of Canada's east coast fishery. The backbone of this province, the backbone of our people.
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Historical Trinity
Nearby Ports: TrinityA national treasure, this town isn't just filled with character, it's filled with characters. With a comedic walking tour and its own theatre production company, this heritage community with provincial historic sites welcomes thousands of visitors each year.
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Golf
Nearby Ports: Multiple. Full list of courses
Play a round at one of our province's 20 golf courses. All set against dramatic scenery, stand on the edge of a hilltop course for a panorama of North America's oldest city and the Atlantic ocean. Novice or pro, or even just caddy for the day, the score won't matter. Just the view...
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Irish Loop
Nearby Ports: St. John's, Bay Bulls, TrepasseyDrive this scenic route filled with wonder, including the world's largest puffin colony, the world's southern-most caribou herd, and one of the first English settlements in North America in Ferryland. |
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Witless Bay Ecological Reserve
Nearby Ports: Bay Bulls, St. John'sOne of the world's greatest natural wonders, it's home to millions of seabirds (and counting) and the world's largest population of humpback whales, along with many other marine mammal species.
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Johnson GEO Centre
Nearby Ports: St. John'sGo underground, literally, and walk among geological mysteries, some over 550 million years old. We think they still look pretty good for their age... |
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Rodrigues Winery
Nearby Ports: Argentia, PlacentiaCanada's largest fruit winery, Rodrigues' wines are local in heart and body, using homegrown blueberries and wild berries for a taste you won't find anywhere else.
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Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic Site
Nearby Ports: St. John'sThe most easterly point in North America and the oldest lighthouse in the province, this is the edge of it all... where a continent begins and the Atlantic Ocean drifts to eternity. Plus, since we have our own time zone, we're really in a world of our own.
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Bonavista Lighthouse Provincial Historic Site
Nearby Ports: BonavistaFrom this 1843 lighthouse, take in the crushing power of the North Atlantic Ocean, all while birds, icebergs and whales convene offshore.
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The Rooms
Nearby Ports: St. John'sThe province's state of the art cultural centre has it all. The Provincial Museum, Archives, and Art Gallery are housed in this magnificent structure, modeled after a traditional fishing shed.
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Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site
Nearby Ports: St. John's, Conception Bay SouthThe Brigus home of explorer Captain Bob Bartlett, the most famous Arctic Explorer of all time, features traditional architecture and is furnished with artifacts and memorabilia. He not only brought Admiral Peary to the North Pole, he brought the North to the world.
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Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve
Nearby Ports: Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, St. Bride'sWith over 35 million seabirds in our province, including murres, razerbills and gannets, come to one of the best seabird viewing spots in the world - it also features a towering 100m sea stack. Even more impressive? You can see much of it from land.
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Signal Hill National Historic Site
Nearby Ports: St. John'sStanding guard over the capital city of St. John's, this is where Marconi received the first transatlantic signal in 1901. Talk about prime location, this strategic post also has a rich military history dating back 400 years. |
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Castle Hill National Historic Site
Nearby Ports: Argentia, PlacentiaA region rich with French and English military history, walk through the fortification remains and then sit back for Faces of Fort Royal, a play providing a look into the lives of the 17th century.
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