In Canada the provinces of Atlantic Canada are known for being a home of Celtic music, most notably on the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

* Celtic Colours ( Cape Breton, Nova Scotia )

NASA landsat photo of Cape Breton Island

Cape Breton Island (-formerly Île Royale, Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn, Míkmaq: Únamakika, simply: Cape Breton ) is an island on the Atlantic coast of North America.

Cape Breton Island is part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

The island is divided into four of Nova Scotia's eighteen counties: Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria.

Cape Breton Island has experienced a decline in population of approximately 4. 4 % since the previous census in 2006.

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

Cape Breton Island's first residents were likely Maritime Archaic natives, ancestors of the Mi ' kmaq, the latter of whom inhabited the island at the time of European discovery.

However, historians are unclear as to whether Cabot first visited Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

In addition to Cape Breton Island, the French colony of Île Royale also included Île St .- Jean ( today called Prince Edward Island ).

The first permanently settled Scottish community on Cape Breton Island was Judique, settled in 1775 by Michael Mor MacDonald.

Today, the descendants of the Highland Scots dominate Cape Breton Island's culture, particularly in rural communities.

Cape Breton Island's most recognizable and commonly used flag.

Cape Breton Island's most recent cultural flag, the " Eagle " flag ( 1997 ).

Cape Breton Island's second cultural flag, the " Tartan " flag ( early 1990s )

Cape Breton Island's first cultural flag, the blue-and-yellow flag dates to the 1940s

Manatees have been spotted as far north as Cape Cod, and as recently as the late summer of 2006, one was seen in New York City and Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, as cited in The Boston Globe.

The Mayflower Mall, Cape Breton Island's largest shopping centre, divided the old Wal-Mart location and added three large retailers, Winners, SportChek, and Future Shop.

Investments were also made to made expand renewable energy use with the development of the North Cape Wind Farm in West Prince, strengthening Prince Edward Island's credentials as a national leader in environmental sustainability.

Their itinerary may also include stops at Ross Island's historic explorer huts at Discovery Point near McMurdo Station or Cape Royds ( Antarctica New Zealand ).

At its northern end, the Aupouri Peninsula reaches a number of capes each of which is claimed by some people to be the North Island's northernmost point: Cape Maria van Diemen, Cape Reinga, North Cape, and the Surville Cliffs.

It runs for 40 kilometres along the Cook Strait coast from Turakirae Head at the southern end of the Rimutaka Ranges to Cape Palliser, the North Island's southernmost point.

Cape Breton Island's fiddle music was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland Clearances.

It nests on offshore islands, with the main population stronghold being Triangle Island off Vancouver Island's Cape Scott, where the population is estimated to be around 550, 000 pairs.

Minor islands surround it, such as Breakwater Island ( high ), located north of Cape Astrup, Wiencke Island's northernmost point.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Cape Verde, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

The Army Corps of Engineers maintains the Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center which introduces visitors to the history, features, and operation of the Canal.

Other features of the cape include the Cape Canaveral lighthouse and Port Canaveral.

* Centro Nacional de Artesanato is an exposition which features qualification from Cape Verdean craftsmen.

As it is currently configured, the launch site features structures similar to Boeing's Delta IV SLC-37 launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with a Fixed Umbilical Tower, Mobile Service Tower, Fixed Pad Erector, Launch Control Center and Operations Building, and a Horizontal Integration Facility.

The granite statue was designed by Heather Baird, with Jerry Lynch, and features a fisherman's wife and her two children located inside a giant compass and looking out onto the sheltering waters of Cape May harbor.

The Siuslaw National Forest features Cape Perpetua, located about south of Yachats.

His image no longer features on any official currency or stamps, but statues of him and his wife remain standing in Adderley Street, Cape Town.

* Bird House, where guests and birds are separated by piano wire, features birds as varied as Bald Eagle, Rhinoceros Hornbill, Hyacinth Macaw, Burrowing Owl, Toco Toucan, Cape Thick-Knee, Golden Pheasant, Kookaburra, Mariana Fruit-dove, King Vulture, Horned Guan, Superb Starling, Tawny Frogmouth, and the Guam Kingfisher, which is Extinct in the Wild.

This region has many globally known places and geographical features including Torres del Paine, Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego island, and the Strait of Magellan.

Cape Hachiman juts prominently into the Pacific Ocean and features lush sub-tropical vegetation.

Historical constraints, core vocabulary and grammatical features that Papiamento shares with Cape Verdean Creole suggest that the basic ingredients are Portuguese, and that other influences occurred at a later time ( 17th and 18th century, respectively ).

Deaf Indigenous people of Far North Queensland ( extending from Yarrabah to Cape York ) form a distinct signing community using a dialect of Auslan ; it has features of indigenous sign languages and gestural systems as well as signs and grammar of Auslan.

Hyannis Port features in the song " Walcott " by Vampire Weekend, as part of the band's pleading with the eponymous Walcott to get out of Cape Cod: " Hyannis Port is a ghetto, out of Cape Cod tonight ".

The music festival features hundreds of Celtic musicians from Cape Breton and around the world.

Cape Verde cuisine features the pastel, as well.

DVD features included: all 17 animated shorts digitally restored in Dolby Digital 2. 0 audio ; a bonus cartoon: Snafuperman ( a 1944 Warner Bros. wartime parody of the Fleischer cartoons, featuring Private Snafu and produced for the U. S. Army ); " Behind the Cape " synopses and fun facts with each cartoon ; a DVD fold-out booklet with notes on the series ; bios of the voice actors, producer Max Fleischer, and Superman ; a bonus trailer for the 1948 Superman serial with Kirk Alyn ; and a recorded audio phone interview with Joan Alexander ( the voice of Lois Lane ).

His literary and linguistic training consisted in a BA Degree ( 1934 ), followed by a Masters thesis ( or " dissertation "), submitted to the University of Cape Town ( UCT ) in 1942, entitled Some features of the phonetic and grammatical structure of Baca ( that is, of Bhaca ), which was an important early contribution to the study of non-standard Nguni languages, specifically, of a Tekela Nguni language.

A number of geographical features in Antarctica commemorate his name, including the Borchgrevink Coast of Victoria Land, between Cape Adare and Cape Washington, the Borchgrevink Glacier and Glacier Tongue in Victoria Land, and the Borchgrevinkisen glacier in Queen Maud Land.

Notable features here are the clay castles of the Hoarisib, the Agate Mountain salt pans and the large seal colony at Cape Fria.

Mi ' kmaq tradition ties the god Glooscap in with significant geographical features such as Cape Blomidon and Five Islands.