NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 32/07

Mistaken Point Extension Emergency Ecological Reserve Order, 2007
under the
Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act

(Filed March 13, 2007)

Under the authority of section 22 of the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act, I make the following regulations.

Dated at St. John's, March 5, 2007.

Clyde Jackman
Minister of Environment and Conservation

ORDER

Analysis

        1.   Short title

        2.   Area included

        3.   NLR 1/03 Rep.

Schedule

Short title

        1. These regulations may be cited as the Mistaken Point Extension Emergency Ecological Reserve Order, 2007.

Area included

        2. The Mistaken Point Extension Emergency Ecological Reserve is established and the area included for the purpose of protecting the oldest known Ediacaran fossils in the world is set out in the Schedule.

NLR 1/03 Rep.

        3. The Mistaken Point Extension Emergency Ecological Reserve Order, Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 1/03, is repealed.

Schedule

All that piece or parcel of land situate and being at Mistaken Point in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Electoral District of Ferryland, abutted and bounded as follows, that is to say:

Beginning at a point being the most northwesterly corner of Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve and having scaled UTM NAD83 co-ordinates of north 5,167,635 metres and east 329,797 metres;

Then running by the northern boundary of the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve in a southeasterly direction for a distance of 1,578 metres more or less to a point having scaled UTM NAD83 scaled co-ordinates of north 5,167,224 metres and east 331,320 metres;

Then turning and running in a northwesterly direction for a distance of 2299 metres more or less to a point having UTM NAD83 scaled co-ordinates of north 5,169,151 metres and east 330,023 metres, and being in the westerly limit of the road, 20.0 metres wide, leading to Cape Race;

Then running along the westerly limit in a general northwesterly direction to a point having scaled UTM NAD83 co-ordinates of north 5,173,446 metres and east 327,421 metres, and being at the point of intersection of the westerly limit of the road with the southerly bank of Cottons River;

Then turning running along the southerly bank of Cottons River in a general westerly direction to a point having scaled UTM NAD83 co-ordinates of north 5,173,439 metres and east 327,380 metres, and being on the easterly shoreline of Trepassey Bay at low tide;

Then turning and running along the sinuosities of the easterly shoreline of Trepassey Bay, at low tide, in a general southerly direction to the point of beginning;

The above described piece or parcel of land containing an area of 296 hectares, more or less.

All co-ordinates being referenced to Zone 22 of the Universal Transverse Mercator Projection as scaled from topographic map 1K/11.

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