Burin Peninsula
| Burin Peninsula | ||
 Northwest coast of the Burin Peninsula at Frenchman's Cove |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 16 ′ N , 55 ° 10 ′ W | |
| Waters 1 | Fortune Bay (Atlantic Ocean) | |
| Waters 2 | Placentia Bay | |
| length | 140 km | |
| width | 25 km | |
| surface | 3 330 km² | |
The peninsula of Burin ( English Burin Peninsula ) is a peninsula in the southeast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland Island .
The peninsula has a length of 140 km and an average width of 25 km. Fortune Bay is located northwest of the peninsula and Placentia Bay to the east . Main locations are Marystown , Grand Bank and Fortune . The peninsula is in the Census Division No. 2 . The Route 210 is the main road connecting the peninsula to the Trans-Canada Highway . In summer there is a ferry from Fortune to the French islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon off the coast .
In 1929 a seaquake of magnitude 7.2 occurred in the area of the Newfoundland Banks ( Grand Banks ) at the continental plate eruption on the edge of the old Laurentian plate (see Laurentia , Terrane , Plate Tectonics ) , which was still noticeable in Nova Scotia . It has been speculated that this quake was caused by the uplifting of the earth's crust, once depressed by the glacial ice. The Burin Peninsula was hit by a tsunami that claimed 28 victims (51 in other data), making it the worst earthquake in Canadian history (Newfoundland was still an independent state at the time).
Web links
- http://www.lostatsea.ca/tidal.htm (original news from 1929, English),
- http://www.schooner.nf.ca/information-for-visitors.html
- http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/000503atlantictsunami/