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Newfoundland is a rainy, chilly, half snowy, yet proud nation within, but certainly not controlled by, the British Empire. Located three and a half hours west of Great Britain by paddle boat it is the most eastern place in North America. A large paddle boat is kept for this purpose in the harbour of the Newfoundland port city, Sin Johns. The capital of Newfoundland, Dildo, is located underwater and is guarded by specially trained baby seals. Newfoundland boasts a variety of attractions and heritage, such as Signal Pill, George Street, Thomas Amusements, and the many drinking spots scattered throughout the cities.
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Newfoundland has several landmarks commemorating early inhabitants. Port au Choix contains a Native American burial ground approximately 4000 years old, and L'Anse-aux-Meadows is the site of a Viking village from about AD 1000. Cabot Tower, erected in 1897 to commemorate John Cabot's first voyage to the region in 1497, stands in the Signal Hill National Historic Site at the entrance to St. John's Harbor. Other landmarks include Ferryland, the site of a settlement established by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s; Castle Hill National Historic Site at Placentia, with a fort from the 1670s; and Cape Spear National Historic Site, the easternmost point of North America.
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Shortly after the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, air traffic controllers at Gander airport, Newfoundland, used their emergency Y2K plans to help safely land dozens of transatlantic aircraft that were headed toward North America. The Y2K emergency plans had been ridiculed as unnecessary when no major problem occurred after clocks changed from 1999 to 2000 (midnight, December 31, 1999), but the Y2K plans may have saved lives at Gander on September 11, 2001.
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The climate of Newfoundland varies greatly. In the interior of Labrador, the climate is continental with very cold winters and brief, warm summers. The cold Labrador current keeps the eastern coast cool. In the eastern part of the island of Newfoundland, the climate is moderated by marine influences, and winters are much milder and summers are warmer and longer. The average temperature ranges from about -1.1° C (about 30° F) in southern Labrador to about 5° C (about 41° F) in southeastern Newfoundland Island. The recorded temperature has ranged from -51.1° C (-60° F) in 1973, in southwestern Labrador, to 41.7° C (107.1° F) in 1914, at North West River along Lake Melville.
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The Hibernia oilfield, off the east coast of Newfoundland, contains more oil than 40 of the 44 oilfields in the North Sea. Combined, the Hibernia and Terra Nova oilfields contain more than 1 billion barrels of recoverable oil. In 1999, the Hibernia oilfield was the most profitable oilfield in Canada.
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