Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts

1. Sleeping Giant

The Sleeping Giant is a formation of mesas and sills on Sibley Peninsula which resembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the west to north-northwest section of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Sleeping Giant (Ontario). (2019, April 01). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giant_(Ontario)

2. Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of New York. They form the southern end of the Niagara Gorge.
Niagara Falls. (2019, April 26). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls


Niagara Falls
Image by Jeff Leonhardt from Pixabay

3. Bay of Fundy

The Bay of Fundy is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the US state of Maine. It has an extremely high tidal range.
Portions of the Bay of Fundy, Shepody Bay and Minas Basin, form one of six Canadian sites in the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, and are classified as a Hemispheric site. It is administered by the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and the Canadian Wildlife Service, and is managed in conjunction with Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
Bay of Fundy. (2019, April 22). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy


Bay of Fundy
Photo by Peter Lloyd on Unsplash

4. Nahanni National Park Reserve of Canada

Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Dehcho Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, approximately 500 km west of Yellowknife, protects a portion of the Mackenzie Mountains Natural Region. The centrepiece of the park is the South Nahanni River.
Nahanni National Park Reserve. (2018, November 17). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahanni_National_Park_Reserve

5. Northern Lights Canada

The Northern Lights is a natural phenomenon that can paint the night sky with unearthly, surreal color. To observers at far-northern latitudes, they're a frequent occurrence, but many who live in more temperate climates have never seen them, even though they're sometimes seen as far south as 35 degrees north latitude.
Northern Lights. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://wikitravel.org/en/Northern_Lights


Northern Lights Canada
Photo by Jonatan Pie on Unsplash

6. Rocky Mountains

The Canadian Rockies or Canadian Rocky Mountains comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains. They are the eastern part of the Canadian Cordillera, which is a system of multiple ranges of mountains which runs from the Canadian Prairies to the Pacific Coast.
Canadian Rockies. (2019, March 24). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Rockies


Rocky Mountains
Image by James Wheeler from Pixabay

7. Cabot Trail

The Cabot Trail is a highway and scenic roadway in northern Victoria County and Inverness County on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The route measures 298 km (185 mi) in length and completes a loop around the northern tip of the island, passing along and through the Cape Breton Highlands.
This trail is the only trunk secondary highway in Nova Scotia which does not have a signed route designation. Road signs along the route instead have a unique mountain logo. The entire route is open year-round.
Cabot Trail. (2019, March 14). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_Trail