St John's Signal Hill

Going back through the city we climbed up to Signal Hill, where Marconi received the first wireless message, a Morse code ‘S’, ‘…’, across the Atlantic, from Southern England, in December 1901. There is an operating 'Ham' station in the tower, it was interesting to see how many visiting 'Hams' had signed into the visitors book each day.

This prominent area provided a first line defence for St. John’s harbour for several centuries.

While touring the grounds we met this 3 year old 'gentle giant', Newfoundland puppy. His ancestors were left here by the Vikings in about the year 1000 AD when they left the island to return to Europe.