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b'Listen to the podcast with this player:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Bonavista Peninsula is on the east coast of Newfoundland, Canada, separating Trinity Bay to the south from Bonavista Bay to the north. At the peninsula\\u2019s northeastern tip is the headland known as Cape Bonavista. It\\u2019s believed that the navigator Giovanne Caboto, better known as John Cabot, may have landed at the cape during his first expedition to North America in 1497. It\\u2019s said that when he caught site of the high bluffs at Cape Bonavista, he exclaimed, \\u201cO Buono Vista,\\u201d meaning \\u201cOh Happy Sight,\\u201d which gave the cape its name.\\n\\n\\n\\nCape Bonavista Light Station, Newfoundland. U.S. Lighthouse Society photo by Ralph Eshelman.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe lighthouse at Cape Bonavista was established in 1843 to help mariners entering Trinity Bay and Bonavista Bay, and to aid navigation heading down the coast for Labrador. The original lamps and reflectors came from the famous Bell Rock Light in Scotland. That system was replaced in 1895 by a catoptric lighting system that had been designed by the renowned Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson. The apparatus was originally used at Isle of May Lighthouse in Scotland. It was installed at Harbour Grace Lighthouse in Newfoundland in 1847, and finally at Cape Bonavista in 1895.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe lighting apparatus at Cape Bonavista. U.S. Lighthouse Society photo.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn 1970 the station was declared a Provincial Historic Site, and the lighthouse was restored by the provincial government a few years later. The historic 1895 lighting apparatus was returned to the lantern room, and it\\u2019s on display there today. Marlene O\\u2019Connell Russell is the site supervisor for Cape Bonavista Lighthouse and also for Mockbeggar Plantation in Bonavista. \\n\\n\\n\\nMarlene O\\u2019Connell Russell\\n\\n\\n\\nListen to the podcast with this player:'