St. John's Harbour EarthCache
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(not chosen)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
The cache area is not hard to get to you can drive really close to cache site and the Platform is wheelchair accessable
Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada
Little is known about the formation of the Hill itself, below is a brief history of the mighty mountains and glaciers that formed what thousands of locals and tourists alike have come to appreciate.
The Mountains
When you look up at Signal Hill, with it's rocky summit rising 500 feet above St. John's Harbour, it's an amazing sight. What is truely amazing is to realize that Signal Hill is part of a long mountain range that was once higher that the Swiss Alps. During hundreds of Millions of years it was worn down by the process of weathering and erosion, to become Signal Hill we see today.
The Glaciers
The last Ice Age came about by natural causes. The changes in the Earth's orbit slowly altered the world's climate, between 10,000 and 25,000 years ago. Signal Hill, Alvalon and Burin Peninsulas, were covered by a blanket of ice, probably between 1500-2500 feet thick in places.
The Harbour
Signal Hill stands above St. John's Harbour The Harbour is one of the world's most sheltered ports. Over a million years, a rock basin was carved out at the foot of Signal Hill, first by rivers, then by a powerful glacier. After the ice melted, the basin became a freshwater lake. Aboout 10,000 years ago, the sea level slowly rose above the Narrows an flooded the lake basin-and St. John's Harbour was born.
To successfully log this cache you must:
...take a photo of YOU AND YOUR GPS from the area behind Cabot Tower known as the Duke of York Observation Platform WITH ST.JOHN'S HARBOUR IN THE BACKGROUND. ANY LOGS THAT DO NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE DELETED.
...answer two questions that are listed below.
Please post picture on cache page and E-mail answers to cache owners. Any answers posted in the cache log will be deleted.
Question #1
What is the estimated distance from the Duke of York Observation Platform to the other side of the narrows?
Question #2
What is the estimated distance from the observation platform of the Duke of York to the other end of St. John's Harbour?
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)