Who the hell wrote this article?
Newfoundland is NOT a remote island! It’s directly next to Nova Scotia. Does he think Nova Scotia is a “remote” island as well?
A remote island would have been somewhere in Nunavut or Northwest Territories.
Kamal Sultan has the byline.
Lives in London but has never been outside the M25 loop. 😉
Oh and can’t use Google Maps ...
The airport is actually farther south than Parliament in London.
Newfoundland is the first place I visited outside the US when the DC-6 in which I was flying to Germany landed at the airport in Gander to refuel in 1961. This was a popular refueling spot for transatlantic flights in those days.
IF it’s not part of the US Eastern seaboard, it’s remote.
1200 miles from NYC.