Robert Matzinger's Cycling Trans-Labrador
Highway Pages
Cycling Trans-Labrador Highway
Labrador City and Fermont
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Fermont and Labrador City, only 20km apart, still seperated
by language and time zone.
We need a week in Lab City to recover and to regain the power to proceed
with our trip.
We make use of some rainy days and visit the main attractions of these
towns:
The mines of Fermont, Wabush and Labrador City belong to the biggest
iron mines on earth and are the only reason these towns exist (that's why
the athmosphere sometimes reminds of an oil drilling platform).
Just watch the size of these machines!
(compare with the car - the truck in the upper picture is
the same as the one under the shovel!)