Gros Morne National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Site

Place: Gros Morne National Park

Weather: Partly cloudy, 51/71F

Route: From Saint John's 663km NW on Trans-Canada highway and NL-1 W.

Significance: Gros Morne is known mostly as a place that exposes the process of plate tectonics. There are places in the park where rocks are exposed that cooled magma from the breaking up of an ancient continent. The landscape includes mountains, fjords, beaches, and waterfalls.  Animals include moose, caribou, black bear, ptarmigan, whales, seals, porpoises, and dolphins.

Websites: UNESCO World Heritage Site, Canadian National Park Site.

Images:

Fjord at Gros Morne (from visitgrosmorne.com)

Tablelands where earth's upper mantle is exposed (from cbc.ca)