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Sable Island

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Sable Island is situated 160 km SW of Nova Scotia, Canada in the Atlantic Ocean. Starting over 200 years ago, lighthouse and life-saving crews and their animals have inhabited the island. A brief attempt at colonization by the French failed at the end of the16th century. The island is a sandbar emerging from the vast shoals and shallows which historically caused many shipwrecks. It is home to over 250 wild horses who are protected by law from human interference. Several large bird colonies are here, Arctic terns, and Ipswich sparrows who breed nowhere else. Meteorological and atmospheric studies are routinely conducted on Sable because of its unique geographic position down-wind from the mainland. Sable Island is mentioned in the book and a staged version appears in the movie The Perfect Storm. The name means "sand" in French.

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(public domain Online Map Creation) Mercator projection

Bibliography

  • "Sable Island Shipwrecks: Disaster and Survival at the North Atlantic Graveyard" by Lyall Campbell, Nimbus pub., ISBN 1551090961, December 2001
  • " Ethos of Voice in the Journal of James Rainstorpe Morris from the Sable Island Humane Station, 1801-1802", by Rosalee Stilwell, ISBN 0773476636, Edwin Mellen Press, January  2001
  • "Sable Island", by Bruce Armstrong, ISBN 0385131135, Doubleday, July  1981
  • "Wild Horses of Sable Island", by Zoe Lucas, ISBN 0919872735, Firefly Books Ltd., August 1992
  • "Wild and Beautiful Sable Island", Pat Keough et al., ISBN 096925573X, Green Publishing,September 1993
  • "Sable Island Journals 1801-1804", by James Rainstorpe Morris, ISBN 0968924506


http://www.sabletrust.ns.ca/ Sable Island Preservation Trust


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