In 1871, a brick lighthouse was built at the tip of the long narrow point of land which sheltered Lord Baltimore's settlement. It still operates today in it's original form, the Ferryland Historical Society has begun to maintain the abandoned keepers house as a museum. Meadows on the very tip of the Northern Penisula. Several decades later, the Norse settlement disappeared to be remembered in the Greenlander Sagas. A millennium later, a lighthouse was built on the craggy limestone cliffs of nearby Cape Norman.
Botanists come from all over the world to see the delicate Arctic orchids that only grow there.
Many other interesting lighthouses can be found around the coastline of Newfoundland. Visit the abandoned granite lighthouse at Rose Blance, only a half an hours drive from the ferry terminal at Port aux Basques. The dramatic Tableland Mountains towers over the lighthouse at Cape Anguille in the pastoral Codroy Valley. Visit Lobster Head Lighthouse at Rocky Harbour in Grosse Morne National Park or Point Riche at Port aux Choix on the Northern Peninsula. Don't miss the view of Notre Dame Bay at sunset high atop Long Point Lighthouse near Twillingate.