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Gaff Topsails is a group of prominent rocky heights in Newfoundland’s interior, between Millertown Junction and Kitty’s Brook, and the name also applied to a nearby railway settlement once inhabited by Newfoundland Railway workers and their families. The landscape includes Main Topsail, Mizzen Topsail, Gaff Topsail and Fore Topsail, each a monadnock rising about 61 to 122 metres above the central plateau. In this barren, windswept region, dramatic winter conditions and heavy snowdrifts repeatedly disrupted travel on the railway and shaped the area’s reputation. Though the settlement has been abandoned, the Topsails remain known for severe weather, exposed terrain and striking scenery.
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Newfoundland and Labrador · Canada