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| | Canada Land Inventory |
 | | The extensive heath barrens of the Avalon Peninsula probably resulted from repeated fires and subsequent invasion by dwarf shrubs. | | | White spruce, yellow birch, and tamarack are scattered throughout the area. | | | Most of the industrial development of the area is concentrated in and around St. John's the capital city of the Province. |
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http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/CLI/mapping/descriptions/Stjohns.html
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| | Avalon |
| | The Avalon is filled with tales of the early adventurers who laid claim to this New World and the men from many nations who fished here. | | | Thrust out into the waters of the North Atlantic, this irregularly-shaped peninsula once was a part of the European continent that drifted westward 400 million years ago. | | | You will also find warm, fun-loving people with high regard for friendliness and hospitality. |
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http://www.afsj.nf.net/katty/avalon1.html
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| | Avalon STRUCTURES, City of Destiny, Ultima Online, Baja Shard, Lord British, Dead Dove Tavern, Avalon Rune Library, ... |
| | They have recently begun asserting their alleged right to the land, although it is contested by more than a few Avalonians. | | | Countless visitors have tread through its doors, and various events have been held inside over the years including a séance, a wake of a Magistrate, as well as numerous gatherings of various groups of Baja citizens. | | | This Inn is dedicated to serving those who are new to the city of Avalon, who need a place to rest safely. |
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| | Geography of the Avalon Peninsula |
| | This is a place where you can photograph herds of caribou or sea | | | This irregularly shaped peninsula once was a part of the European continent that | | | The Avalon Peninsula offers nightlife and wildlife, city scenes and untouched |
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http://www.k12.nf.ca/fatima/geography.htm
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| | Ministers release report on waste management on the Avalon |
| | This report is intended for information and discussion purposes only. | | | The committee will be comprised of people from various municipalities on the Avalon peninsula, groups and organizations and individual citizens. | | | The report is a synopsis of previous reports that had been done regarding different aspects of waste management in Conception Bay North and on the Avalon. |
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http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2001/mpa/0724n05.htm
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| | Medical and Nursing jobs in Avalon Peninsula (Newfoundland and Labrador) - MedHunters |
| | MedHunters Email: info@medhunters.com Call Us: 1-800-664-0278 Contact Info Terms of Use Privacy Policy Signup for our newsletter Photo credits for this page | | | Listen to Robert Frost: “I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." 333 Jobs for Exotic. | | | Live and work in the oldest and most easterly city in North America! |
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http://www.medhunters.com/regions/avalonPeninsulaNlCanProvinceArea.html
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| | Avalon Peninsula |
| | The peninsula is, and has been since the settling of the island, its most populous region. | | | Sir George CALVERT was granted a portion of the peninsula 1623 and lived there 1627-29, with his headquarters at FERRYLAND on the "Southern Shore." It was his holding, called Avalon after the legendary site where Christianity was introduced to England, for which the peninsula was named. | | | During the 1600s and 1700s the peninsula saw conflicts between the French and English with France establishing PLACENTIA on the southwest coast as its capital in the 1660s. |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&TCE_Version=A&ArticleId=A0000419&mState=1
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| | Avalon Peninsula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This page was last modified 23:52, 22 September 2005. | | | Sir George Calvert was later given a large land holding on the peninsula. | | | The charter created the province as a palatinate in which Calvert had absolute authority. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_Peninsula
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| | Manuels River Natural Heritage Society |
| | As this progressed, sediments were again deposited upon areas of the peninsula which had previously been eroded. | | | This was reversed about 600 million years ago when a major new ocean, known as Iapetus, began to form. | | | The Northern Peninsula had previously been on the far side of Iapetus, while Central Newfoundland was created from the old deep ocean bedrock of Iapetus that had been pushed up in the continental collision. |
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http://www.manuelsriver.com/pages/geology2.html
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| | map of newfoundlands avalon peninsula tour the avalon peninsula of newfoundland |
| | The Avalon was one of the first areas of the province to be settled, and is full of stories of af the early adventureers who laid claim to this New World. | | | The Avalon Peninsula was a part of the European continent 400 million years ago. | | | The Avalon Peninsula has many museums and historic sites that bring history to life. |
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http://comerfords.e.tripod.com/avalon.html
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| | David Kirke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Kirke took possession of Ferryland ejecting William Hill, who had been proprietary governor on behalf of Cæcilius Calvert, who had succeeded as Baron Baltimore on the death of his father. | | | This charter superseding an earlier charter that granted the Avalon Peninsula of the island to George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore as Baltimore was deemed to have abandoned his colony. | | | Calvert, meanwhile, went to court to challenge Kirke's charter and his seizure of the Province of Avalon and Kirke was imprisoned and is thought to have died in jail. |
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| | Avalonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Avalonia was an ancient microcontinent also known as a terrane. | | | Part of Avalonia which has an effect on the geological structure between the Ardennes and the English Midlands is known by names such as the 'London-Brabant Island'. | | | In the Cretaceous, Laurasia broke up into North America and Eurasia with Avalonia split between them. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalonia
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| | The Colony of Avalon |
| | However he did not attempt to regain actual control of the colony and it remained in the possession of the Kirke family until it's destruction in 1696. | | | However, the pirates were destroyed by the residents of St. John's who were organized by a man named Captain Christopher Martin. | | | The Colony of Avalon was burned destroyed by French and Indian soldiers serving under the French naval officer, Captain Pierre Le Moyne sieur de'Iberville, in 1696. |
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http://www.infonet.st-johns.nf.ca/providers/green/ferryland.html
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| | Avalon Peninsula -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Itzhak Rabin masterminded Israel's 1967 capture of the Sinai Peninsula. | | | The city is located at the eastern end of Avalon Peninsula, which is in the southeastern corner of Newfoundland island. | | | Alaska also fits the definition, though it is very large and has a number of its own peninsulas. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011400?tocId=9011400
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| | ngb_info TIDBIT INFO. "THE AVALON PENINSULA" |
| | Avalon was, in the legend, the land where King Arthur went when he died. | | | The Isthmus is a narrow neck of land stubborn enough to have survived the heavy glaciation which cut the two deep bays, Placentia and Trinity, that you can see on either side. | | | Along the shore you will notice many attractive seashells washed up by the tide and coloured stones that were deposited by volcanic action and polished to their present smooth, round shape by the ebb and flow of the Atlantic. |
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http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/heritage/NGB/MList/ngb_info/200306/427.html
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| | Newfoundland Gazetteer |
| | It was the place where the French landed in 1762 and from where they had marched overland to attack and capture St. John's. | | | Cook sailed to St. John's each year before starting his year's survey and returned before crossing the Atlantic back to Britain for the winter. | | | It had been a French settlement known as Plaisance. |
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| | Canadian Geographic Magazine: Maps, Travel, Photography, Geography Contests, and Canadian Geographic Magazine ... |
| | This point of land on the southwestern tip of the peninsula consists of a steep cliff rising about 76 metres out of the sea. | | | The irregularly shaped peninsula juts out into the Atlantic from the southeast corner of the island, attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus that shrinks to 4.8 kilometres in some places. | | | St. John's is a city of superlatives, as North America's most easterly port and oldest city. |
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| | AvalonBay Communities Breaks Ground On Four New Luxury Apartment Communities |
| | Avalon Belltown, located in the Seattle, Washington area, will consist of 100 apartment homes in one five-story mid-rise building. | | | Avalon Harbor, located in the Fairfield-New Haven, Connecticut area, will consist of 323 apartment homes in two four-story mid-rise buildings. | | | Avalon at Westpark, located in the San Jose, California area, will feature 218 apartment homes in seven, low to mid-rise buildings ranging from two to four stories. |
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-17-2000/0001341280&EDATE=
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| | HROA: Resource Management District 1 (Avalon Peninsula) - Penney |
| | The areas were foot-surveyed and photographed, and test pits were dug. | | | Prior to fieldwork, topographic map and aerial photography interpretation, consultations with the Culture and Heritage Division, along with documentary research, were conducted to determine areas with historic resource potential. | | | The Avalon Peninsula and the isthmus connecting it to rest of the island form the southeast part of the Island of Newfoundland. |
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| | ACOA Website - News - News Releases |
| | Adventure races or Raids have grown in popularity world wide since the first Raid Gauloise, founded by French journalist Gerard Fusil in 1988. | | | The project also includes the development of a web site in two official languages and the creation of a new logo for the event. | | | The goal of each committee is to plan a multi-sport event, Raid Avalon, in its area during 2004. |
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http://www.acoa-apeca.gc.ca/e/media/press/press.shtml?2526
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| | Encyclopedia article on Peninsula [EncycloZine] |
| | Colin Archer peninsula, Devon Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut | | | A peninsula is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body that is surrounded by water on three sides. | | | Yucatán Peninsula, partly separating the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea |
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| | Avalon Peninsula |
| | Sir George Calvert was given a large land holding on the peninsula and it is his estate, named after Avalon the legendary site of the introduction of Christianity to the British Isles, that gives the peninsula its name. | | | The peninsula was one of the first European inhabited areas in North America with the first permanent settlement established in 1610. | | | The peninsula covers about 10,000 square kilometers and is home to 40% of Newfoundland's population, including the capital of St. Johns. |
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http://www.guajara.com/wiki/en/wikipedia/a/av/avalon_peninsula.html
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| | Off the Avalon |
| | The Discovery Trail's website has a lot of information about the Bonavista peninsula. | | | It's the location of a medieval Norse habitation which has been reconstructed by the National Parks Service and has since been designated a World Heritage Site. | | | The Discovery Trail's website has a lot of information about off the Avalon peninsula. |
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| | BBTraveller - Bed and Breakfast Online Canada |
| | As the closest place on this continent to Europe, the Avalon's history is full of seafaring, from fishing to piracy to wartime squadrons - as in, the Seven Years' War. | | | The southwest Avalon, around Placentia, is where the French settled. | | | The last battle in that war was fought on Signal Hill in St. John's in 1762 when the English routed the occupying French. |
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| | Inland Fish and Wildlife maintains presence on Avalon |
| | This will allow work to continue on certain projects in partnership with Memorial University and other agencies involved with wildlife activities. | | | "The office on the Avalon Peninsula is required to maintain a regional presence in the area which serves a very large population," added Tulk. | | | Deputy Premier Beaton Tulk today announced that government will maintain a regional wildlife office on the Avalon Peninsula which will meet the wildlife management objectives and the needs of the public on the Avalon. |
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| | Mistaken Point, Newfoundland |
| | You may also visit Mistaken Point Fauna: The Discovery for more information on S.B. Misra and his work in this locality. | | | In 1967, geologist S. Misra, who at the time was a graduate student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, discovered and began to document some unusual fossils of late Precambrian age, found in great numbers on exposed rock surfaces along the southern coast of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland (Anderson and Misra 1968; Misra 1969). | | | The most famous locality where these fossils can be seen is at Mistaken Point, a wave-swept crag virtually at the southernmost tip of the Avalon Peninsula. |
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| | Southern Avalon Peninsula : Regions in Brief Frommers.com |
| | Or at least that's true in the southern part of the peninsula, which is home to the island's largest caribou herd, numbering some 13,000. | | | Historic Ferryland is among the most picturesque of the Avalon villages, set at the foot of rocky hills on a harbor protected by a series of abrupt islands at its mouth. | | | At times along Route 92 between North Harbour and St. Bride's, even a moderately persuasive person might convince you that you were in Oklahoma. |
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| | Historic Avalon & The Baccalieu Trail |
| | This travel route is named for Baccalieu Island, which is at the trail's midpoint at the northern end of the Bay de Verde Peninsula. | | | The park has camp and trailer sites for extended stays. | | | His colony was not a success, but it helped to lead the way for the later and more permanent settlement of the area. |
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| | ngb_info COMMUNITY NAMES OF THE AVALON PENINSULA. |
| | Avalon region consist of the Avalon Peninsula district {eastern Newfoundland} The Osprey Trail Communities of the Avalon. | | | The names are not written in alphabetical sequence, thought it best if you could have some knowledge of which Towns are Neighbouring Towns, here on the Avalon Peninsula. | | | Grates Cove, the most northerly community on the trail. |
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http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/heritage/NGB/MList/ngb_info/200503/2547.html
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| | ABSTRACT: Coastal evolution and sea level variation, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland: Geomorphic, climatic, and ... |
| | Currently, sea level is rising around the entire peninsula, locally at rates approximately 7 mm/a. | | | In the late Holocene, sea levels gradually rose, and the southern Avalon Peninsula was affected by a short-lived transgression about 1,100 to 1,000 B.P., followed by a minor regression c. | | | Detailed investigations and ongoing monitoring at several sites along Conception, Trinity, St.Mary's and Placentia Bays, an on the open Atlantic shore, have revealed that recent local anthropogenic activity, in conjunction with geomorphic factors and climatic changes, has resulted in significant changes in the morphology and sedimentary regimes of almost all the sites studied. |
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| | AVALON PENINSULA |
| | The tops of the hills, which rise to 250 m above sea level, have been well rounded and elongated by the northward-moving ice sheet. | | | Perched boulders were left balanced delicately on smaller rocks by the melting ice and many can be seen from the highway. | | | As the ice sheet on the Avalon Peninsula stopped growing and then began to melt, it split into small pockets which then disintegrated, leaving bare the tops of the hills first. |
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| | ABSTRACT: The pattern of glaciation on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. |
| | The Avalon Peninsula ice caps were controlled by regional and hemispheric events, and by the response of Laurentide glaciers. | | | The pattern of glaciation on the Avalon Peninsula has been established through study of geomorphic features, striations, and erratic provenance. | | | Final deglaciation of the Avalon Peninsula began before 10,100+/-250 BP. |
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| | Library: Canada Facts: Newfoundland and Labrador |
| | John's, the capital city, is located in the Avalon Peninsula, and the historic commercial centre of the island, is the province's largest city, with a population of approximately 101,936, with a metro-area population of 177,000. | | | Land area out of Canada's total area - 4.06% |
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| | Subject: Re: [AVALON] Two Dicks Battle It Out I'm guessing you didn't major in maths... | | | I think you can consider that conclusive proof of > > attendance. | | | > > To: > > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:25 PM > > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Just Like You > > > > > > > Judging by the Avalonians all around me in the front row, most of us > will > > be > > > in the video. |
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| | Make Cancer History Ski Trip Across the Avalon Peninsula II |
| | Avalon Wilderness Reserve containing messages related to the battle against cancer, and vowed to return to the cache three laters when Armitage reached the five year survival mark. | | | On February 9, 2001, he and two companions set off on skis across the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, to celebrate reaching the two year survival mark and promote the work of the Canadian Cancer Society. | | | That survival mark has arrived, so Armitage, James Youden and Siu O'Young repeated their crossing of the Avalon Peninsula on skis. |
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| | The paleopole for the Wabana - Bell Island Groups lies at 33 | | | It is compared with other early Paleozoic paleopoles from cratonic North America and the Avalon zone, and it significance for the Iapetus Ocean is discussed. | | | The Wabana and Bell Island Groups of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland contain oolitic hematite beds of Early Ordovician age, dipping 11 north-northwest. |
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| | CBC News: Marine fossils from Newfoundland to grace magazine cover |
| | The 120 fossils, which are about two to three centimetres long, are known to science as rangeomorphs — soft-bodied marine organisms that resemble ferns but are actually animal-like remains. | | | The fossils were found in the Spaniard's Bay area on the north coast of the Avalon Peninsula. | | | The outcrop is about half the size of a basketball court. |
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| | CBC - Canada Votes 2004 |
| | This riding includes Baccalieu Island, Great Colinet Island and all of the Avalon Peninsula save for the two St. John's ridings. | | | The Avalon riding was created in 2004, by carving off half of Bonavista-Trinity-Conception and combining it with parts of St. John's East and West. | | | In 2001, census takers counted 79,761 residents, most of whom live in ports such as Carbonear, Bay Roberts, Placentia and Harbour Grace. |
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| | Baccalieu Trail Tourism Association |
| | Seabird and bird of prey nesting sites can be found all over the Baccalieu. | | | Baccalieu Island at the tip of the peninsula supports the greatest diversity of breeding seabirds in North America. |
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| | Earth Science Picture of the Day |
| | The right side or eastern part of this scene is the Avalon Peninsula. | | | Most of the peninsula is snow covered on this image, and, in fact, Newfoundland is one of the snowiest places in North America. | | | Cupids, St. Bride's, and Paradise are other appropriately-named small towns on the peninsula to visit on February 14. |
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http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=49248
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| | Avalon Peninsula Directions and Maps - Visiting - Colony of Avalon |
| | Once off Route 10, the large building is the Interpretation Centre. | | | For all other areas, please consult the map below, as well as official highway maps. | | | The exit for the Colony of Avalon is clearly marked on the side of the road. |
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| | Accommodations, Elaine’s B&B By The Sea - Witless Bay B&B on Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada |
| | People come from all parts of the world to experience the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. | | | Elaine's BandB by the Sea is nestled on two acres of seaside meadows where you hear nothing but the sound of waves rolling on shore. | | | Whether you are hiking the trails, watching the whales breach, or just relaxing on the swing in the meadow, we know you will enjoy the natural beauty of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland as well as the warm, casual, friendly atmosphere here at Elaine’s BandB by the Sea. |
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http://www.elainesbythesea.com/accommodations.htm
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| | Ministerial Statement - Highway maintenance and snow clearing on Avalon Peninsula |
| | Curtis has accepted this alternate pilot proposal and the department is looking forward to working with NAPE to provide this service in the most efficient way possible. | | | As a result, I am pleased to announce today that the department, in conjunction with the Newfoundland Association of Public Employees, will take a new direction with respect to this matter. | | | Speaker, since becoming Minister of Works, Services and Transportation, I have reviewed departmental plans to undertake a pilot project to privatize highway maintenance and snow clearing operations on the Avalon Peninsula next winter. |
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| | Geological/Rockhounding Tours |
| | This tour is guided and facilitated by a geologist with many years experience in the mineral exploration industry across Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada and is moderately Spanish speaking. | | | Different dates for this tour can be arranged upon request for groups of four to six. | | | The "Avalon Peninsula Discoverer " is a two day one night geological tour which includes traversing the Avalon Peninsula's unique geology. |
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http://www.nvo.com/oncearockinc/avalonpeninsuladiscoverer
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