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Gaspé, the first Canadian landfall of Jacques Cartier in 1534, is a Micmac Indian word for Land’s End, and this is indeed southern Québec’s most remote region, 700 km (420 miles) from Québec City.
This tiny patch of land, 63 sq miles in area, is at the center of a momentous turning point in history, for it was here that Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the New World, on 12 October 1492.
The year was 1778; his landfall was the northerly island of Kauai; and the name he gave his new discovery was the Sandwich Islands (after the Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Sandwich).
The sailors’ first landfall was on the little offshore island of Tanegashima, which has progressed from matchlocks and muskets to being Japan’s principal rocket-launching center.
Americans have followed all this obsessively, with weather Web sites reporting record traffic in the days before Floyd's landfall.