Destination St. John's - Colorful Encounters
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'The Goings On'

It's a Fact!
  • Newfoundland has its own time zone - 1.5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. This is where the sun first rises in North America.
  • Newfoundland is home to some of the world's largest and most accessible seabird colonies in North America.
  • Water Street is the oldest street in North America!
  • In 1919 a British aircraft departed from Lester's Field, in what is now the west central part of the city, and landed in Clifden, Ireland, less than 17 hours later, marking the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • In 1901, Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi set up a listening post on Signal Hill and successfully received the first wireless transmission from Europe.
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