Cape Freels

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Cape Freels (Newfoundland)
Cape Freels
Cape Freels
Location of Cape Freels in Newfoundland
For Cape Freels on the Avalon Peninsula, see Cape Freels (Avalon).

Cape Freels is a headland on the island of Newfoundland and the location of a community of the same name.

The cape was named Ilha de Freyluis as early as 1506. [1] The Portuguese translation is a derivation of the island of Brother Lewis. The area around the cape is the location of a Beothuk camping site. Radiocarbon dating of the artifacts place them between A.D. 200-700. [1]

For navigational safety a gas lamp was erected at Gull Island, Cape Feels in 1924.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, ISBN 0-9693422-1-7.

Coordinates: 49°15′18.41″N, 53°27′44.21″W

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