Cow Head is a town in the

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of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town had a population of 478 in the Canada 2016 Census. The Dr. Henry N. Payne Community Museum (c. 1941) in Cow Head, Newfoundland and Labrador is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places. Cow Head is home to one of the longest sandy beaches in Newfoundland as well as a large area of sand dunes. It also has panoramic views of the Long Range Mountains of Gros Morne. An interesting geologic feature found at Cow Head is a section of the former continental margin of Laurentia which dipped into the

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ocean. There is a walking trail leading to a lighthouse constructed in 1909 on the summer side or "head" of Cow Head.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Cow Head had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Arts and culture

Cow Head is the home to the Gros Morne Theatre Festival. A new theatre named in honour of nurse, Myra Bennett, is currently under construction and aiming for completion in 2021.

Geology

The Cow Head Group is made up of a series of continental slope strata that contain numerous boulders made of carbonate. These have yielded numerous trilobite fossils and have led to the identification of new species, including '' Catillicephala cifelli'', named after paleontologist

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Gallery

File:Aerial_view_of_Cow_Head_from_the_"summer_side".jpg, Aerial photo of the Cow Head Peninsula File:Sandy Beach in Cow Head, Newfoundland.jpg, Sandy beach in Cow Head, 2020

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