Newfoundland and Labrador Overview
Perched on the edge of North America, Newfoundland and Labrador are Canada’s two most easterly provinces. It’s an area that features raw natural beauty, charming little villages and incredible sights like being able to view 10,000-year-old icebergs, humpback, minke and blue whales dancing offshore and half a million puffins nesting in the rocks across the rugged coastline.
Newfoundland and Labrador is almost three times the size of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island combined, and is blessed with over 18,000 miles of craggy coastline. It is here where two of the planet’s great ocean currents – the warm Gulf Stream and the cold Labrador Current – meet and mix on a huge and shallow underwater continental shelf just offshore, stirring up basic nutrients that provide a huge natural larder. The cold water brings 10,000-year-old icebergs south, where they cross paths with 5,000 northward migrating humpback whales, and 35 million seabirds soar overhead.
The province is filled with historic towns and landmarks documenting the region’s indigenous aboriginal inhabitants, Viking visitors and maritime heritage. It’s also a place of ancient landscapes, such as the unique and beautiful geological features of the UNESCO-listed Gros Morne National Park, or the colossal mountain ranges of the Torngat, Kaumajet and Kiglapait and their primeval exposed rock.