The bay 's larger islands are listed below : The Swissair Flight 111 Memorial is located at The Whalesback , a promontory approximately 1 km northwest of Peggys Cove . It is one of two memorials built to commemorate the victims of the Swissair Flight 111 disaster , which crashed into St. Margarets Bay on 2 September 1998 . The crash site is roughly equidistant between the Whalesback Memorial and another memorial at Bayswater , Nova Scotia , located on the Aspotogan Peninsula on the western shore of the bay , opposite Peggys Cove
Swissair Flight 111
Swissair Flight 111
St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia