Bay Of Fundy Doesn't Make 7 Wonders List

Bay Of Fundy Wonders Of The World

First Posted: 11/11/11 11:50 AM ET Updated: 11/12/11 01:34 PM ET


A global competition has named its "provisional" New 7 Wonders of Nature, but no Canadian sites have made the list.


The New 7 Wonders of Nature are:


- South America's Amazon rainforest.


- Vietnam's Halong Bay.


- Argentina's Iguazu Falls.


- South Korea's Jeju Island.


- Indonesia's Komodo national park.


- The Philippines' Puerto Princesa Underground River.


- South Africa's Table Mountain.


New Seven Wonder of Nature organizers said it's possible there will be changes between the provisional winners and the eventually confirmed winners after voting is verified. A final announcement will be made in early 2012.


The Bay of Fundy — located between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick — was the only Canadian finalist on the first short list of 28.


But the home of the highest tides in the world didn't make the top 14 finalists in a global competition that featured frenzied lobbying and online voting.


The new seven wonders initiative is the brainchild of Swiss-Canadian adventurer and filmmaker Bernard Weber.


The competition attracted the attention of Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter, who said winning would have turned the bay into a tourism gold mine.


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SkeeBee
Offending InFoxtrination Sufferers With Facts.
06:25 PM on 11/11/2011
Ahhh.
It's only go the most amazing, fast moving tides on the entire planet.
Meh.
Big deal.
I only vividly remember seeing it 32 years ago.

Failtastic list.
03:55 PM on 11/11/2011
I keep waiting for Michael Palin to ask "So how did you become a wonder then?".

This list is a clever idea if it wasn't determined by some farcical internet ceremony where
people who have never seen ANY of the 28 sites on the list vote for which they think are the
best ones.

How about a rational selection process by people who actually know something...