For many of us, Newfoundland is best known as a blotch of green on a transatlantic-flight map, reaching out from North America like a fist whose pinky reads, “St. John’s.”
This sparsely populated region of Canada, where majestic cliffs plunge into orca- and iceberg-filled waters, remains remote and mysterious even more than 1,000 years after the Norse explorer Leif Erickson landed there.
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