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Several boat tours explore the bay for close-up sightings of beluga whale and cruise over to the ruins of Fort Prince of Wales on a promontory at the mouth of the Churchill River.
The rock in question is a promontory, boldly jutting out into the sea, surmounted by a little white fishermen’s church.
The line, which linked up with the Union Pacific at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, was built under the most hazardous conditions, using poorly paid Chinese laborers who sometimes worked suspended in wicker baskets over sheer cliffs to hack a tenuous cutting through the steep passes of the Sierras.
The drive south down the peninsula from St. John’s takes you first out to Cape Spear, a windswept rocky promontory jutting out into the crashing waves of the Atlantic — easternmost point of North America (longitude 52°37’24”).
The harbor separates the city proper, with the Stanley Park promontory, from its elegant north shore mountainside suburbs of West and North Vancouver.