Venue information for TSOP - Halifax 2011
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Venue information for TSOP - Halifax 2011
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The venue for the 28th Annual TSOP Meeting is the World Trade and Convention Centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. All conference events will be held at the World Trade & Convention Centre, 1800 Argyle Street in the centre of the city. The WTCC is steps away from hotels, restaurants, parks and other amenities. Their website has a convienient Google location map of the WTCC and the downtown Halifax area. The Prince George which is the designated hotel for the meeting is next door and connected by a pedway that will keep you out of traffic. >> Map of WTCC (World Trade and Convention Centre) More Photos of WTCC >> Entrance | Ice Breaker (view 1) | Ice Breaker (view 2)  Geology shapes our scenery Halifax is located on Canada's east coast and has a deserved reputation as a beautiful scenic area. The rugged Atlantic coastline and gentle topography were sculpted by recent glaciation events superimposed on the largely Cambrian to Ordovician sedimentary deposits of the Meguma Terrane on the south mainland area which buts against the Avalon terrane to the north including Cape Breton Island. The two terranes are joined by the majour east-west Minas Fault Zone, which transects the province from the northeast tip of the mainland on the east to the Bay of Fundy in the west. The highlands in the 'Celtic' areas of the northeastern mainland and Cape Breton are part of the Canadian Appalachians. For a large part of its coast the Cape Breton highlands rise directly from the shoreline forming magnificent views from the famous coast-hugging route called the Cabot Trail, named after John Cabot the 15th century explorer of the area. If you Google Cabot Trail you will get a link to Images from Cabot Trail which will give some of the flavour of this region.  On the south coast another famous area was created by large boulders called glacial erratics, composed of 415-million-year-old Devonian granite. With evidence of scouring marks still visible in the nearby bedrock the Peggy's Cove lighthouse area juts out into an often hostile North Atlantic surf that seems to try to beat down these huge granites. If you Google Peggy's Cove you will get a link to Images from Peggy's Cove which will display fifty pages or more of one of the most photographed areas in this region. 
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