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Newfoundland and Labrador
Springdale, Canada
Glassy Beach, old landfill shore
Old dump ground Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea glass
Old bottles
Sea potteryPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Former community landfill on the shore of Hall's Bay; decades of surf turned the dumped glass into a beach of frosted pieces.
CBC As It Happens: Anne Warr leads a campaign to save Glassy Beach near Springdale, site of a former landfill, after visitors stripped glass that covered the beach two years earlierView source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Remote shoreSlippery rock, exposed to Hall's Bay weather
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