Cabox Is

Cabox is the name of the highest peak on the island of Newfoundland and an Aspiring Global Geopark spanning the Bay of Islands Ophiolite Massifs, Little Port Island Arc Complex, Transported Continental Margin and Ancient Continental Slope of the lower Humber Valley.  It rises to 814 meters (2670ft) and is located on the Lewis Hills (named after a French Shore era King Louis), the most southerly of the four BOI Ophiolites which also include the Blow Me Down Mountains, North Arms Hills and Tablelands, that appear collectively offshore as a series of “cabos”, or capes, originally formed between the Upper Cambrian to Lower Ordovician geologic periods during the closing of the Iapetus Ocean and formation of the Appalachian-Caledonian Mountains. The region is the core of the Humber Arm Allochthon and is often referred to as the Galapagos of Plate Tectonics for the role it played in confirming the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s and 70s.