Peninsulas of Newfoundland and Labrador - Labrador Peninsula, Port Au Port Peninsula, Burin Peninsula, Bonavista Peninsula, Avalon Peninsula (Paperback)

Chapters: Labrador Peninsula, Port Au Port Peninsula, Burin Peninsula, Bonavista Peninsula, Avalon Peninsula, Eastport Peninsula, Bay de Verde Peninsula, Great Northern Peninsula, Connaigre Peninsula, Baie Verte Peninsula. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Port au Port Peninsula is a peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Roughly triangular in shape, it is located on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. Along Route 460 Park-Boutte du CapThe peninsula extends into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and is joined to Newfoundland by a narrow isthmus connecting at the town of Port au Port. It is bounded on the south by St. George's Bay, the western side by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and on the northwestern side by Port au Port Bay. With a rocky shoreline measuring approximately 130 km in length, the peninsula extends approximately 40 km west from its isthmus to Cape St. George and northwest 50 km to the fingerlike Long Point which by itself is approximately 25 km in length. The eastern shore of the peninsula is irregular, jutting into Port au Port Bay. The Port au Port Peninsula is located on the western edge of the heavily eroded Appalachian Mountain chain which runs along Newfoundland's west coast. There are no natural harbours along the peninsula's rocky coastline. The peninsula was once heavily forested but many areas along its shores have been cleared for subsistence farming. The southern shore is hilly with the northern shore having a sloping lowland extending to a low rise along the centre of the eastern part of the peninsula. The geological structure is complex with the peninsula's soils dating to the middle Cambrian to early Ordovician continental margin, creating a carbonate platform of limestone, shale, and san...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=216254