Cape Ray
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 37'7 " N , 59 ° 18'7" W |
| Waters 1 | Atlantic Ocean |
Cape Ray is a cape in the extreme southwest of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador .
On the other side of the Cabot Strait , the main exit of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence , it lies on Cape Breton Iceland in the province of Nova Scotia , the Cape North over. The underwater cable of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company , initiated by Frederick Newton Gisborne , reached the island in a bay east of the cape .
The cape is marked by a lighthouse, which was first built from wood in 1871. Like its successor built in 1885, it burned down and was rebuilt in concrete in 1959.
A summer camp of the Dorset Eskimos was located near Cape Ray, some of which was archaeologically developed.
The town of Cape Ray and the ship of the United States Maritime Administration , Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679) are named after the Cape.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bill Glover: History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Cabot Strait Cable and 1857-58 Atlantic Cable. Retrieved October 9, 2018