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Shipwrecks, scientists and stubborn horses define Sable Island life
Out in the northwest Atlantic, where fog can erase the horizon and storms arrive with almost theatrical force, there lies a ribbon of sand so narrow and low that it seems less an island than a hesitation in the sea. Sable Island, about 300 kilometres southeast of Nova Scotia, is famous for looking temporary and…
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How seabirds reshaped McKean Island and its future
A white shard in the Central Pacific Far out in the central Pacific, where charts seem to empty into pure distance, McKean Island lies low and hard under the sun: a small, raised coral island in the Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, with no trees, no fresh water, no harbor, and no permanent human life. It…
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Kerguelen Island at the Edge of the Empty Sea
Where the Southern Ocean Keeps Its Own Counsel Far below the usual maps of travel, in the storm-belt of the southern Indian Ocean, lies Kerguelen Island, a place so distant from ordinary human routes that it seems less discovered than merely endured. It belongs to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, and sits roughly 3,300…
