Cape Ballard (46° 47'N, 52° 57'W) is a 90 metre high headland
with a round bare summit, 15 km north of Cape Race on the Avalon Peninsula.
Bread and Cheese Point (47° 18'N, 52° 46'W) lies half way up Bay
Bulls on the north shore.
Breme Point (47° 'N, 53° 'W) is on the Placentia Bay coast of the
Avalon Peninsula, 20 km north of Cape St. Mary's.
Cape Broyle (47° 03'N, 52° 51'W) is a very conspicuous, wooded
headland, over 175 metres high. It has two peaks fronting the sea with a col between. It
is located on the east coast of the Avalon Peninsula, 55 km north of Cape Race.
Bay Bulls (47° 18'N, 52° 46'W) is an inlet, 7 km long, on the east
coast of the Avalon Peninsula 30 km south of St. John's. It was the place where the French
landed in 1762 and from where they had marched overland to attack and capture St. John's.
The Burin Peninsula extends southwest for about 120 km from the
central part of Newfoundland, separating Placentia and Fortune Bays. It is never more than
30 km wide. The French islands of St.-Pierre and Miquelon are located off the western end
of the peninsula. Cook surveyed the coast of the peninsula west from Great St. Lawrence
Harbour round into Fortune Bay in 1765. There is no evidence that Cook visited the
settlement of Burin itself.
Carbonear (47° 44'N, 53° 13'W) is an inlet, 5 km long, on the
west shore of Conception Bay on the Avalon Peninsula. Cook was dispatched to make a
survey there in late 1762.
Chapeau Rouge (Red Hat) (46° 53'N, 55° 22'W) is a prominent
hill, about 240 metres high, at the entrance to Great St. Lawrence Harbour on the south
coast of the Burin Peninsula.
Ferryland Head (47° 01'N, 52° 51'W) is the headland at the end
of a thin prominent peninsula on the eastern coast of the Avalon Peninsula, 50 km north
of Cape Race.
Fox Island (47° 21'N, 53° 59'W) lies off the west coast of the
Avalon Peninsula about 10 km north of Placentia Harbour.
Freshwater Bay (47° 32'N, 52° 41'W) is a small inlet on the
east coast of the Avalon Peninsula, just outside St. John's Harbour and between it and
Cape Spear. Ships unable to enter St. John's could ride here.
Gibraltar Rock (47° 14'N, 54° 03'W) lies 2 km WSW of Pointe
Verde, the southern headland at the entrance to Placentia Harbour.
Great Island (47° 11'N, 52° 49'W) lies 1½ km off the east
coast of the Avalon Peninsula, 10 km south of Witless Bay.
Green Island (47° 14'N, 52° 47'W) lies 1½ km off the east
coast of the Avalon Peninsula, off Witlass Point.
Gull Island (47° 16'N, 52° 46'W) lies off of the Avalon
Peninsula at the mouth of Witless Bay.
Latine Point (47° 19'N, 54° 00'W) is a headland 6 km north of
Placentia Harbour on the Argentia Peninsula.
Harbour Grace (47° 42'N, 53° 13'W) is an inlet, 7 km long, on the
west shore of Conception Bay on the Avalon Peninsula. Cook was dispatched to make a
survey there in late 1762.
Mistaken Point (46° 38'N, 53° 10'W) is a 30 metre high headland
resembling a green hummock near the southeastern part of the Avalon Peninsula.
Moll Point (47° 16'N, 54° 00'W) is the northern headland at the
entrance to Placentia Harbour.
Cape Pine (46° 37'N, 53° 32'W) is a 60 metre high, barren headland
between St. Mary's Bay and Trepassey Bay at the southern part of the Avalon Peninsula.
Placentia (47° 15'N, 53° 58'W) is a settlement and harbour on
the west coast of the Avalon Peninsula. It had been a French settlement known as
Plaisance. It was the rendezvous for the British when they began the campaign to retake
St. John's in 1762. Cook went there in August 1762 and made a survey of the harbour.
Cape Race (46° 40'N, 53° 05'W) is the headland at the southeastern
corner of Newfoundland and usually the landfall for ships crossing the Atlantic. It is
brown and barren, formed of vertical slate. A wedge-shaped rock, 15 metres high lies just
southeast of the cape.
Cape St. Francis (47° 49'N, 52° 47'W) is the northeastern
point of the Avalon Peninsula, 25 km north of St. John's. It forms the eastern point of
Conception Bay.
St. George's Leads (Georges Ledge) (47° 32'N, 53° 40'W) is
a patch of shallower sea about 1½ km east of the entrance to St. John's Harbour. It
shallows to depths of 15 and 17 fathoms.
St. John's Harbour (47° 34'N, 52° 42'W) is a sheltered
inlet on the east coast of the Avalon Peninsula. Cook made a survey of the harbour in
1762. St. John's, the capital of Newfoundland has developed
around the harbour. Entrance to the harbour is via The Narrows
(47° 34'N, 52° 41'W).This narrow passage has rocks on either shore. To the north is
Chain Rock (47° 34'N, 52° 41'W), to which a boom used to be tied to provide
security against attack by foreign ships. Signal Hill (47° 34'N,
52° 41'W) is the high ground behind North Head at the mouth to St. John's Harbour and, as
such, crucial to the defence of the harbour. Cook sailed to St. John's each year before
starting his year's survey and returned before crossing the Atlantic back to Britain for
the winter.
Cape St. Mary's (46° 49'N, 54° 12'W) is the headland at the
southwestern corner of the Avalon Peninsula.
St. Mary's Cays (46° 43'N, 54° 13'W) are two rocks, 10 km
south of Cape St. Mary's on the Avalon Peninsula.
Cape Spear (47° 31'N, 52° 31'W), on the Avalon Peninsula is the
eastern point of Newfoundland, 7 km southeast of St. John's.
Sugar Loaf Head (47° 37'N, 52° 39'W) is a conspicuous headland
6 km north of St. John's on the east coast of the Avalon Peninsula. A sheer cliff rises
170 metres.
Tor Bay (47° 40'N, 52° 42'W) is an inlet on the east coast of the
Avalon Peninsula, 12 km north of St. John's. Part of the British force was landed here
and marched overland to recapture St. John's.
Point Verde (47° 14'N, 54° 01'W) is the southern headland at the
entrance to Placentia Harbour.