Western Brook Pond

The Western Brook Pond is a fjord in Gros Morne National Park in the west of the island of Newfoundland (NL, Canada ), the connection is lost to the sea due to an uplift of the coast, so it is a lake today.

Geography and History

The fjord is 16 km long and up to 165 m deep. The surrounding mountain range is up to 600 m high. The Pissing Mare Falls, the second highest waterfall in Canada and space 199 of the highest waterfalls in the world (see also list of known waterfalls), open into the Western Brook Pond.

The Western Brook Pond was formed in the period from about 25,000 to 10,000 years ago during the Ice Age by glaciers. After these melted, the fjord lost the connection to the open sea. The fjord is filled today with one of the purest fresh water on earth.

Flora

The fjord is accessible via a paved, two-mile wooden path leading through moorland. Here are among other carnivorous plants such as pitcher plant, sundew or Butterwort to find.

Tourism

The Western Brook Pond can be visited in the summer season ( June to October) by boat. A local boat operator launched two boats ready, one of which is capable of transporting a boat 70, the other a maximum of 90 people.

During a boat trip, it is also possible to leave the boat at the end of the fjord, where to hike up the mountain massif.

Trivia

  • After some of the surrounding mountain range are broken down into the fjord, it came at the beginning of the 20th century to a 30 -meter-high tsunami.
  • The tour boats in the fjord had to be flown into the fjord bay in whole or in parts by helicopter, as the terrain is not passable around by land.
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