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The small town of Gander is located in the northeast area of Newfoundland in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town is situated roughly approximately 25 miles or 40 kilometres south of Gander Bay, 62 miles or 100 km south of Twillingate and 90 km or 56 miles east of the city of Grand Falls-Windsor. Located on the northeastern coast of Gander Lake, it is the site of Gander International Airport, previously an essential refueling point for transatlantic aircraft, and, to this day, a preferred stopping point for transatlantic aircraft that must land due to on-board medical or security emergencies.

Gander's streets have the distinction of being named after several well-known aviators. Some of these comprise Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Marc Garneau and Chuck Yeager.

Gander was chosen for the construction of an airport in the year 1935 due to its site close to the northeast tip of the North American continent. In the year 1936, construction of the base started, and the town of Gander began to develop. On the 11th of January, the year 1938, Captain Douglas Fraser made the very first landing at "Newfoundland Airport", now called Gander International Airport, or "CYQX", in a single-engine biplane, Fox Moth VO-ADE.

There were as many as 10,000 British, American and Canadian military employees residing in the town of Gander in WWII. The region provided a strategic post for the Royal Air Force Air Ferry Command with 20,000 Canadian- and American-built fighters and bombers starting their European campaigns at the town of Gander. After the war, the airbase became a civilian airport, and the site of the town was moved a safe distance from the runways. Construction of the existing town location started in the 1950s, and the present municipality was incorporated in the year 1958; the settlement all-around the airport was eventually neglected.

Gander has several walking trails and public parks. The Cobbs Pond Rotary Park is a small park located within the heart of the Gander. Amenities in the park comprise a picnic area, washrooms, playground, wharf and a 3 km boardwalk trail. It is likewise the location of the town's yearly festival, The Festival of Flight, that occurs on the first Monday of the month of August. The Thomas Howe Demonstration Forest is an interpretive demonstration forest situated 2 km east of Gander on the TCH. The facilities of this park comprise a picnic area, three walking trails with interpretive panels, snowshoe trails and washrooms. The Old Town Site features a meander through the streets of the old town site near Gander International Airport. Look for remnants of old building foundations, benches and interpretive panels. Lastly, the Newfoundland Trailwa, that is the old Canadian National Railway that passed through the town of Gander has been developed for walking, biking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. Various areas between Cobb's Pond Rotary Park and the Old Town Site have been paved.