Ein 42 km langer Sandmond allein im offenen Atlantik, 300 km von Halifax entfernt. Die türkisfarbenen Untiefen an jedem Ende haben über 350 Schiffe versenkt (Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Sentinel-2, August 2025)
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Ein 42 km langer Sandmond allein im offenen Atlantik, 300 km von Halifax entfernt. Die türkisfarbenen Untiefen an jedem Ende haben über 350 Schiffe versenkt (Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Sentinel-2, August 2025)
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Some context: Sable Island is about 42 km long and never more than about 1.5 km wide, sitting roughly 300 km southeast of Halifax. The pale turquoise streaks running off the east and west tips are shallow sandbars that stretch for kilometres underwater, and they’re why the waters around it have claimed more than 350 recorded shipwrecks. The island is also home to a few hundred wild horses, and it’s been a national park reserve since 2013. The dark sliver in the middle of the island is Lake Wallace.
A couple of things people usually ask: the faint straight bands across the water are where satellite image strips meet, and the thin line in the lower right is most likely a plane, not anything on the surface.
Disclosure: I run Fields From Orbit, where I curate satellite captures like this one, so I’m linking my own site. The full-resolution piece is here: [fieldsfromorbit.com/collections/ice-water/the-ocean-crescent-no-1/](http://fieldsfromorbit.com/collections/ice-water/the-ocean-crescent-no-1/)
Horses ? But how ?
I was flying from Chicago to London once and fell asleep shortly after takeoff. I woke up to see this sliver of sand in the waters below us, and I thought I was hallucinating. It was barely there – just the tip of a ridge, fighting to stay above the waves. I took some pictures and have been in love ever since. I’d love to visit someday but it’s very well protected and rather remote. I’m happy it’s even still there.
I bet there’s an interesting story about how that was first discovered
Wait, did Prisoner Zero escape?
I was reading about Sable Island recently on Wikipedia, and found it interesting that it was likely formed from a terminal moraine, by sediments from glaciers melting and depositing here. Crazy to me that the glaciers extended almost this far into the oceans.
I did a project on Sable Island as a kid, and though I have gotten close to it (in my career as a sailor) I’ve never actually visited the island.
[https://www.google.com/maps?q=44.1,-59.9](https://www.google.com/maps?q=44.1,-59.9)
can see it’s just before the end of the continental shelf.
This looks good for a pre-naval battle meet up to discuss terms
That should have some surfable mega waves
At first I thought these were the wild horses, but I think they might be seals, or sea lions? Shape makes more sense and they are crowded near the sea. Several spot like this on the east end.
Can’t seem to attach my screenshot. 43°58’54.91″N 59°45’07.87″W
> The turquoise shoals trailing off each end have sunk over 350 ships
Well I guess sea levels rising is going to be good for something, at least!
If you go to googlemaps there is streetview available from 2 places on the island created in 2022.
My old friend got to spend a summer or two on the island doing research when she went to Dalhousie years ago. I was always a little jealous of that.