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PHOTO: Dr Dan Hewitt, Glennis Rideout, and Dr John Sheldon at Valley Pond (formerly called Whale’s Gulch) a community on New World Island located on the northeast coast of Newfoundland.
BACKGROUND PHOTO CREDIT: Simon Dawson, New World Island, NL
PHOTOS TOP (left to right) Images of the smiling land—“We love thee, smiling land” from the Ode to Newfoundland composed by Governor Sir Cavendish Boyle in 1902: Bridgeport, New World Island (NWI); many houses on NWI depend on water sources such as the artesian well pictured second from the left (well photo by Simon Dawson); cottlesville, NWI; Summerford, NWI; lighthouse in Cottlesville; docked in the harbour at Summerford. (Bottom) photo of an iceberg taken in Twillingate looking back at NWI.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ned Pratt, St John’s, NL
