Planner | Destination St. John's

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.
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.
Cabot Tower (on Signal Hill) was built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's "Voyage of Discovery".
The accent heard in St. John's is very similar to that of Waterford, Ireland.
The pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) is the official flower of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the puffin is the official bird.

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