5100 x 3400 px | 43,2 x 28,8 cm | 17 x 11,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
avril 2009
Lieu:
Burncoat Head, Nova Scotia, Canada
Informations supplémentaires:
Low tide at Burncoat Head Park - Bay of Fundy, Minas Basin, Burncoat Head, Nova Scotia, Canada. The highest tides in the world are recorded in Bay of Fundy's Burncoat Head Park in Nova Scotia. Burncoat Head is located off route 215 of Nova Scotia's Fundy Shore. It has a nicely restored lighthouse and access to the beach where visitors can walk the ocean floor at low tide. The Burncoat Head Park is a wonderful place for fossil hounding, birding, and beachcombing. The average tides heights at Burncoat Head are above 17 meters (47.6 feet). The highest tide in the world was measured at Burncoat Head during the tropical cyclone Saxby Gale on Oct.4-Oct.5, 1869. The record high tide was caused by the storm surge, the moon making its monthly passage closest to Earth in combination with a new moon on the same day. Royal Navy Lieutenant Saxby predicted a year earlier that a severe storm along with a very high tide would hit somewhere in the world.
