Urbex Map Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada – Urban Exploration

Urbex Map Newfoundland and Labrador – Urban Exploration Canada Map

The Urbex Map Newfoundland and Labrador documents 77 verified GPS locations across Canada’s easternmost province, an island and continental territory shaped by cod fishing, WWII military construction, and Cold War-era resource extraction. From the abandoned outport villages of the Newfoundland coast to the former iron ore company towns of Labrador, this map covers a province where entire communities were built and then abandoned within a single generation.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s abandoned landscape is defined by two forces: the island’s cod fishery collapse and the preceding resettlement programs that emptied dozens of coastal communities, and the post-war resource development that built company towns across Labrador’s interior, towns like Schefferville that boomed and contracted within decades, leaving behind significant infrastructure in remote sub-Arctic conditions.

Structured for direct import into Google Earth or Google My Maps, this GPS database gives urban explorers, photographers, and documentary crews a verified research foundation for navigating one of the least-explored abandoned landscapes in North America, where coastal isolation and sub-Arctic remoteness have preserved sites in exceptional states of untouched decay.

Cities & Areas Included

• 🌊 Resettled Fishing Outports : Newfoundland’s resettlement programs of the 1950s and 1960s, in which entire coastal fishing communities were relocated to larger centres under government incentive, left behind dozens of abandoned outport villages scattered across the island’s deeply indented coastline. These communities, accessible today only by boat or foot, preserve the physical fabric of a pre-modern fishing economy: stages, flakes, wharves, root cellars, and saltbox houses in states of slow coastal decay. No other province in Canada offers this category of community-scale abandonment.
• ⚓ WWII Military Infrastructure & Cold War Sites : Newfoundland’s strategic position in the North Atlantic made it one of the most heavily militarised territories in wartime Canada and the United States. Former WWII air bases, including facilities at Gander, Stephenville, and Goose Bay in Labrador, left behind aircraft hangars, control towers, barracks complexes, and associated infrastructure on a scale rarely found elsewhere in the country. The Goose Bay Air Force Base complex in Labrador is among the largest abandoned military installations in Atlantic Canada.
• 🏗️ Labrador Mining Towns & Iron Ore Heritage : Labrador’s interior holds abandoned iron ore company towns, former mine infrastructure, and decommissioned industrial complexes associated with the Schefferville and Churchill Falls development era. Wabush and Labrador City preserve former company town infrastructure, while Schefferville, largely emptied after IOC operations wound down in the 1980s, holds an extraordinary concentration of abandoned houses, industrial buildings, and mining infrastructure in an isolated sub-Arctic setting.

Types of Spots Included

This urbex map covers resettled outport fishing villages accessible by boat along the Newfoundland coastline, former WWII and Cold War military air bases including hangars and barracks complexes at Gander, Stephenville, and Goose Bay, abandoned Labrador iron ore company towns and associated mining infrastructure, former fish processing plants and saltfish stages along the island coastline, and decommissioned industrial and institutional buildings in St. John’s and the Avalon Peninsula. Newfoundland and Labrador offers the most geographically distinctive abandoned landscape in Canada.

Why Choose This Urbex Map?

• 📍 77 GPS-ready locations in one organized file
• 📡 Direct import to Google Earth and Google My Maps
• ⚡ Available immediately after purchase
• ⏱️ Skip hours of forum research with a single download
• 🎯 Built for field explorers, photographers, and filmmakers
• 📷 Ideal for photography routes, film scouting, and visual documentation

Technical Specifications

• File Format: .KML / .KMZ
• Instant Digital Download
• Compatible with Google Earth
• Compatible with Google My Maps
• Works on Desktop & Mobile Devices
• Digital Product Only (No physical item shipped)

How to Install

1. Complete your purchase and download the .KML or .KMZ file.
2. Open Google Earth or go to Google My Maps in your browser.
3. Import the downloaded file into the platform.
4. Browse the GPS locations and plan your exploration routes.

Installation takes less than two minutes and works on both desktop and mobile platforms.