Entries for June, 2009
The Graveyard of the Atlantic
This large map of Sable Island shows its many shipwrecks. Only sealers, shipwrecked sailors and salvagers made their homes on Sable Island, impermanent ones at best. The salvagers must have had some pretty good times — over the last few centuries, more than 350 vessels were shipwrecked on what became known as the “Graveyard of […]