The Treasure of Newfoundland
Its name is renowned, but Newfoundland remains a little-known, even mysterious territory, protected by its inhospitable climate and frequently battered by storms
Newfoundland is a land of extremes. It’s America’s most easterly island, as large as Iceland, bordering the world’s largest estuary and a mecca of world fishing history. Its coasts, sculpted by the monumental glaciers of the last ice age, and its large southern Grand Banks at the crossroads of two major ocean currents, form the most important fishing zone in the world. This place is also the site of one of the largest annual gatherings on the planet. Every summer, responding to the vital drive to reproduce, billions of capelins surge toward the coast, with all the predators in the food chain following in their wake
