Cape Bonavista是頗具歷史意義的地方。與哥倫布同時期的航海家約翰·卡波於1497年登上紐芬蘭這塊地的時候，就是在這裡。這是英國往西的遠洋探索首次成功登陸,往後開啓了她的海外帝國。哥倫布由西班牙王室資助，卡波乃由英國王室資助。事實上哥倫布到達美洲大陸的年份是1498，比卡波晚一年。

Bonavista is a historic site.  The explorer John Cabot landed here in 1497 around the same period that Christopher Columbus reached the American mainland in 1498 at his 3rd voyage.

In early May, 1497, John Cabot bearing letters patent from Henry VII sailed from Bristol in the Matthew to seek a western passage to Asia.  On June 24, He made land somewhere on the east coast of Canada.  Although the sources do not allow unequivocal identification of the site, local tradition records Cape Bonavista is the landfall.   From this, the first official English voyage of exploration in the Western Ocean, derived Britain’s subsequent claims in the New World and the beginnings of her overseas empire.