As they travel towards the bottom of the peninsula, visitors will find Ferryland, one of the oldest European settlements in North America, where archaeologists have found remnants of homes built in the 17th century. Fans of more recent history will also want to stop at the Cape Race Lighthouse, which received the distress call from the doomed Titanic in 1912.

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