🌿 Mistaken Point

Canada · Americas · Natural · 46.63°N, 53.21°W

Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is a wilderness area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located at the southeastern tip of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The reserve is home to the namesake Mistaken Point Formation, which contains one of the most diverse and well-preserved collections of Precambrian fossils in the world. Ediacaran fossils discovered at the site constitute the oldest known remnants of multicellular life on Earth.

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Quick facts

Country	Canada
Continent / region	Americas
List type	🌿 Natural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	46.63°N, 53.21°W · view on map

Mistaken Point is a natural World Heritage site in Canada, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Mistaken Point was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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