Cape Blomidon

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Cape Blomidon is a headland on the Bay of Fundy coast in Nova Scotia, Canada. It sits in Kings County at the northeast edge of the Blomidon Peninsula. The area features reddish cliffs that rise about 100 metres above the Minas Basin to the east. Cape Split, the continuation of the North Mountain range, juts off the Blomidon Peninsula to the northwest. The coast is part of Blomidon Provincial Park, with park access from the peninsula’s southern edge about 3.5 kilometres south of Cape Blomidon. In Mi’kmaq legend, Cape Blomidon is the home of Glooscap. The name was officially approved on October 1, 1959; before that, it was known as Cap Poutrincourt (Champlain), Cap Baptiste (Acadians), or Cape Porcupine (English), and the common form Cape Blowmedown from which Blomidon is derived. The cape has inspired poetry, notably Charles G. D. Roberts’s Blomidon, and it was the site of the Battle of Blomindon during the American Revolution.