Cape Ray

Geographical location

Cape Ray is a headland in the far southwest of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

On the other side of the Cabot Strait, the main exit of the St. Lawrence Gulf, it is located on Cape Breton Iceland in the province of Nova Scotia, Cape North against. In a bay east of the Cape, which was initiated by Frederick Newton Gisborne underwater cable of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company reached the island.

The cape is marked by a lighthouse which was first built in 1871 from wood. It burned down in 1885 erected as his successor, and in 1959 rebuilt in concrete.

Near Cape Ray was a summer camp of the Dorset Eskimos, which was partially archeologically.

The town of Cape Ray and the ship of the United States Maritime Administration, Cape Ray (T- AKR - 9679 ) are named after the cape.