New 7 Wonders omit Bay of Fundy

A global competition has named its "provisional" New7 Wonders of Nature, but no Canadian sites have made the list.

TheNew 7 Wondersof 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 saidit'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 Fundylocated between Nova Scotia and New Brunswickwas 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, whosaid winning would have turned the bay into a tourism gold mine.