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Interesting Facts              Tickle Your Taste Buds
                Did You Know?                  Canada’s new culinary capital has   INTERESTING FACTS
                Most Easterly Point in North America.  authentic cuisine from land and sea and
                See the sun rise before everyone   features 4 Diamond-rated restaurants.
                else, just 15 minutes from downtown.
                                               Welcoming
                Coastline                      Become an honourary Newfoundlander
                Get a great ocean view with    with a traditional “Screech-In”
                over 29,000 kilometres         ceremony! Pucker up, close your eyes
                (18,000 miles) of coastline.   and plant a big one on a Newfoundland

                                               Codfish! Don’t be shy, they never
                                               get tired of a kiss from an attractive
                A Half Hour Ahead              mainlander. Visit the Screech Room
                Newfoundland has its own time   at www.spiritofnewfoundland.com.
                zone that is 0.5 hours ahead of
                Atlantic Time. Hey, when you’re   Arts & Music
                always a half hour ahead, you
                never feel the need to catch up!   Take in one of our 40 internationally
                                               acclaimed festivals of film,

                                               literature and music.
                Iceberg Hunting
                A sparkling spring parade      Golf
                of 10,000-year-old towering
                icebergs unfolds every year in   Play more than 20 courses
                a beautiful clutter of pristine   sculpted against the backdrop
                white and azure blue.          of our spectacular seacoast.

                Humpbacks                      Slightly Off Kilter
                Home to the world’s largest    With surrounding communities such as
                population of humpback whales   Heart’s Delight, Conception Bay, Heart’s
                that arrive in June along with   Content.. let your imagination explore!
                35 million seabirds.

                Delightful Dialects
                We speak more dialects of
                English than any other place
                in the world... 26 in total!

                Social
                The infamous George Street
                boasts the most clubs/bars per
                capita in North America with 30
                on a single cobblestone street!







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