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	Sable Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sable Island is believed to have formed from large quantities of sand and gravel deposited on the continental shelf near the end of the last ice age.
		A lighthouse was established on Sable Island by the British government in the 1790s and its life-saving crew became the first inhabitants of the island, a brief attempt at colonization at the end of the 16th century by France having failed.
		Sable Island is specifically mentioned in the Constitution of Canada as being the special responsibility of the federal government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sable_Island (1054 words)

	Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Continental islands are bodies of land that lie upon the continental shelf of a continent.
		The southernmost chain is the Austral Islands, with its northerly trending part the atolls in the nation of Tuvalu.
		An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Island (891 words)

	Sable Island Bibliography
		McLaren, I.A. Censuses of the Ipswich Sparrow on Sable Island.
		McLaren, I.A. The incidence of vagrant landbirds on Nova Scotian islands.
		Welsh, D.A. Population, behavioural and grazing ecology of the horses of Sable Island.
	www.greenhorsesociety.com /Bibliography/Bibliography.htm (4949 words)

	Sable Island
		Sable Island, NS, is the only emergent part of the outer Continental Shelf of eastern North America, situated 177 km southeast of the Strait of Canso.
		The island stands on the broad Sable Island Bank of the SCOTIAN SHELF and consists of 2 parallel sand dune ridges separated by a discontinuous, linear depression.
		Sable Island has been evolving as a barrier island during the past several thousand years of postglacial time as the sea has slowly risen over the Continental Shelf.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0007038 (512 words)

	Sable Island - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		SABLE ISLAND, an island of Nova Scotia, Canada, iio m.
		The island is constantly changing in shape, owing to the action on the sand of wind and wave, and tends to diminish in size.
		Sable Island, estimated as being then over loo m.
	31.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SABLE_ISLAND.htm (377 words)

	Atlantic Green Lane - Conservation Strategy for Sable Island
		The island has a diverse flora and fauna and is stabilised, primarily, by its vegetation cover and the oceanic currents.
		From the perspective of conservation, AEB staff have come to serve as de facto wardens of Sable Island by enforcing the applicable government regulations and monitoring the activities of individuals on the island.
		A conservation strategy for Sable Island is required to plan the preservation of its biological diversity, and to manage and minimise the impacts of human use.
	www.ns.ec.gc.ca /reports/sable.html (730 words)

	Sable Project - Sable Island
		Sable Island, about 41 kilometre in length, is located approximately 290 kilometres southeast of Halifax; composed of sand, the island is the only emergent portion of Sable Island Bank.
		Sable is, for example, the only breeding ground of the rare Ipswich Sparrow, and is also home from mid-May to mid-July to small breeding numbers of the threatened Roseate Tern, as well as Arctic Terns, gulls, sandpipers, plovers, fl ducks and mergansers.
		The environment of Sable Island is particularly vulnerable to disturbance, and it is of great concern to all parties involved that any activities carried out on Sable Island cause no disturbance or damage to the habitat, flora and fauna.
	www.soep.com /cgi-bin/getpage?pageid=1/8/1 (2499 words)

	Sable Island - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sable Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island has been the scene of many shipwrecks over the years, earning it the nickname ‘Graveyard of the Atlantic’.
		The island has ridges of dunes covered with grasses and shrubs, and a freshwater lake.
		A herd of 150 to 400 Sable Island horses, probably introduced in the 18th century, run free on the island and are protected.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Sable%20Island (255 words)

	Sable Island - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The island was known to mariners in the early 16th cent., and a small French semimilitary colony was there from 1598 to 1603.
		Known as the "graveyard of the Atlantic," Sable Island is a major hazard to navigation and has been the scene of many shipwrecks; at the time of Canadian confederation the island was made the specific responsibility of the national government.
		The island is also a breeding place for seals, which are protected by the government.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/SableI1sl.asp (300 words)

	Sable Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Island is considered administratively a part of the Halifax Regional Municipality and the federal electoral district of Halifax, although the urban area of Halifax proper is some 300 km away on the Nova Scotian mainland.
		One result of the island's complex administrative situation is that many amateur radio operators consider Sable Island to be a separate country and commonly give it the call sign prefix CY0.
		Category:Islands of Nova Scotia Category:Nova Scotia de:Sable Island pl:Sable (Nowa Szkocja)
	sable-island.area51.ipupdater.com (1061 words)

	Sable Island: the Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic Natural History - Find Articles
		One hundred and seventy-nine miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sable Island is a treeless, crescent-shaped sliver of sand stretching some twenty-five miles from west to east, near the edge of the continental shelf.
		To compound the danger, the island is surrounded by miles of offshore sandbars, whose extent and shape constantly shift under the battering of storms and currents.
		The island's lighthouses and its various weather and ocean sensors have all been automated, and such modern navigational aids have vastly reduced the incidence of shipwrecks.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_2_114/ai_n13487564 (745 words)

	Links to Sable Island History Preservation Ecology Environment and Weather in Nova Scotia
		This Sable Gas Mural is painted by Mi'kmaq artist Allan Syliboy and relates to the timeless spirits that inhabit Sable Island.
		Sable Island is one of the few restricted places in Canada.
		The mission is to preserve and protect the fragile environment of this island in the Atlantic, famous for its seals, wild ponies and historical shipwrecks.
	www.highway7.com /links/link-sableisland_history.html (701 words)

	About Sable Island Furniture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island furniture will grow old gracefully without anyone’s help and after all, you would never think of distressing your new BMW.
		Sable Island furniture is, by and large, hand crafted.
		Sable Island furniture is often referred to as being “timeless”, which is to say that it transcends ephemeral trends and styles, and that it can coexist with just about any other furniture and any architecture.
	www.sable-island.co.uk /about.htm (513 words)

	Shark Predation on Sable Island seals
		In the early 1990s, there was a marked increase in the number of seals killed by sharks in the waters around Sable Island.
		However, of the various wound patterns seen in the seal carcasses washed ashore on Sable Island, by far the most common is a peculiar clean-edged `cut' (termed "corkscrew") which is quite unlike wounds characteristic of attacks by great white, tiger and mako Isurus oxyrinchus sharks recorded elsewhere.
		Shark-inflicted mortality on a population of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) at Sable Island, Nova Scotia.
	www.greenhorsesociety.com /Sharks/shark_predation.htm (633 words)

	Nature Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island is an ecological and geological rarity.
		However Sable Island's unique ecosystem provides habitat for remarkable plant, bird, and marine life, such as the Ipswich sparrow, the largest grey seal colony in the world and the famous Sable Island wild horses-said to descend from horses confiscated from Acadians and left on the Island in 1756.
		Sable Island is important-not only is it an Important Bird Area and as a Migratory Bird Sanctuary, but it is located adjacent to the new Marine Protected Area of the Sable Island Gully-the first Marine Protected Area in Eastern Canada.
	www.cnf.ca /newsroom/feb_17_05.html (519 words)

	Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Sable Island Lifesaving and Ship Wrecks Info Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island, a 44-km-long sand bar about 300 km east south east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is renowned for its wild horses.
		As the island eroded, the West Light was moved in 1883, 1888, 1917,and 1951.
		Sable's only year-round residents are half a dozen weather observers, sometimes with their families.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mma/AtoZ/Sable.html (798 words)

	New Sable Island Topographic Map Released
		This isolated island, best known for its wild horses and shipwrecks, is a 41 km long crescent of sand located in the Atlantic Ocean, some 290 kilometres southeast of Halifax.
		The topography of the island is graphically depicted on the new map, the first update to the sheet since it was initially issued in 1963 by the former Department of Energy, Mines and Resources.
		The Sable Island map, along with others in the NTS series, is available from Regional Distribution Centres across Canada.
	maps.nrcan.gc.ca /sable/index_e.php (351 words)

	Vegetation & Terrain Management on Sable Island
		Shaped by atmospheric and oceanic influences, Sable Island is a sandy crescent some 160 km from the nearest landfall, Canso Head.
		Sable may not be drifting inexorably eastward toward the deep Gully, or washing away as rapidly as once thought.
		This debris is an eyesore; worse, it is a hazard to the island's wild horses.
	www.gov.ns.ca /natr/wildlife/conserva/12-02-9.htm (873 words)

	Lesson Plans - Sable Island's Seals, Sharks, and Sand Lances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island is a remote island about 180 miles (300 kilometers) east-southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
		Operated by a nonprofit group called the Sable Island Preservation Trust, the island has very few human inhabitants but hosts scientists who come primarily to study wildlife.
		Explain that Sable Island, a remote island off the eastern coast of Canada, is one location where animals compete with each other for the same food resources.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/08/g35/ccsable.html (1133 words)

	Sable Island: Why so many wrecks? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable is on one of the richest fishing grounds in the world.
		Sable lies near the junction of major ocean currents.
		The last vessel wrecked on the island was on July 27, 1999, the small yacht Merrimac.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/sableisland/english_en/history_hi/graveyard_gr/wrecks_gr.htm (250 words)

	SIPT - About the Trust
		Sable Island Preservation Trust is a non-profit, charitable organization established in 1997 to help preserve and protect Sable Island and its unique ecosystem.
		Sable Trust’s goal is to promote and conduct scientific research and monitoring and to undertake conservation programs which will ensure the long-term stability and viability of Sable Island, its plants and animal life, and the surrounding marine environment.
		Sable Island is a designated Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) site administered by the Sable Island Preservation Trust, one of 14 such sites around the Atlantic Canada.
	www.sabletrust.ns.ca /aboutthetrust.htm (151 words)

	The Maine Greens - Sable Island Gas Pipeline Index Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island is about 100 miles off the southwest coast of Nova Scotia near the edge of the George's Bank.
		On Sable Island there is a natural gas well, which has been connected via pipeline to the mainland.
		The whole project is referred to as the Sable Gas Project, and has been the focus of a corporate hard sell to the citizens and regulatory agencies of Nova Scotia for much of the past decade.
	www.mainegreens.org /directaction/sableis/index.htm (120 words)

	Sable Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island is a crescent-shaped island of sand, located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 300 kilometres east of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
		An interesting link about the possibility of establishing passenger pidgeon routes between Sable Island and the mainland in the 19th century can be found at Pidgeons.
		Sable Island is located in the middle of what were fertile fishing grounds: Sable Island Bank, Banquereau, Middle Bank and Misaine Bank, not far from the rich Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
	www.lostatsea.ca /sable.htm (232 words)

	Sable Island - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sable Island, island of eastern Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 300 km (185 mi) east of Halifax.
		Island, any comparatively small body of land completely surrounded by water.
		An island differs from a continent both in geological structure and in...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Sable_Island.html (119 words)

	Sable Island's unique ecosystem protected by federal-provincial conservation strategy
		Sable Island's unique ecosystem protected by federal-provincial conservation strategy
		The strategy provides a solid framework for a long term management plan for Sable Island which will have conservation as the base for all decisions for managing the island.
		One of the central recommendations is that a continuing human presence is necessary to protect Sable's unique flora, fauna and physical properties.
	www.ec.gc.ca /press/sable_n_e.htm (378 words)

	USQUE AD MARE - A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services
		It is thought that Cabot was the first recorded human being to sight the Sable Island, but this is pure conjecture as he logged only the passing of two islands which, at safe distance from the decks of a small vessel, he might well have thought the sand hills to be.
		Official interest in Sable Island was heightened as a result of a tragic shipwreck in 1799; from this would arise a strange tale which, to this day, is difficult to resolve.
		About this time, there had been rumours of evil deeds on Sable Island, these tales arising from the activities of pirates and wreckers who, it was alleged, lured ships to their fate and reaped a harvest of ill-gotten gain.
	www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca /usque-ad-mare/chapter07-02_e.htm (1835 words)

	Cape Sable and Sable Island - navigational aids 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Both places have justified their cognomen, though Sable Island with its miles of dangerous sandbars shoaling the Atlantic in the fairway of the ocean lane, may be classed as the worst peril of the two, and can be said to have claimed more victims.
		After a wild northeaster, it was no uncommon thing for the Sable Island keepers patrolling the beach to find a few bodies washed ashore with odd bits of wreckage which offered no clue to the name of the unfortunate vessel which had struck the bars.
		Like Sable Island, the number of wrecks and disasters to shipping around the Cape will never be accurately known as, with the terrific seas breaking over the ledges in winter gales, the vessel striking, founders or goes to pieces immediately, while the chances for crews and passengers in the life-boats are small.
	www.lostatsea.ca /sabwreck.htm (1118 words)

	Lesson Plans - Competition on Sable Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		They will conclude by illustrating maps of the island to show the seals' feeding behaviors and the shark's predatory activities, and they'll write paragraphs describing their maps.
		Tell the class that they will be focusing on Sable Island, a remote island off the eastern Canadian coast where two seal species compete against each other in the same ecosystem.
		Explain that the island is an excellent seal habitat, particularly for gray and harbor seals.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/08/g68/ccsable.html (1056 words)

	Nature Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sable Island's importance to Canada's natural heritage is demonstrated by its dual designation as an Important Bird Area and a Migratory Bird Sanctuary, and its location adjacent to the new Marine Protected Area of the Sable Island Gully — the first Marine Protected Area in eastern Canada.
		The island supports practically the entire population of the nationally vulnerable Ispwich Savannah Sparrow and is a significant habitat for large numbers of nesting colonial waterbirds, some in globally significant numbers, such as Herring Gulls, Great Black-backed Gulls, and Common Terns.
		In summer and autumn the island is cloaked with lush, green vegetation and wildflowers (including six species of orchid); in winter and early spring the dunes are rather bleak, grey and windswept, and appear deceptively devoid of vegetation.
	www.cnf.ca /newsroom/jan_20_05.html (671 words)

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