CA-K1043Places & geography
Sable Island, “Graveyard of the Atlantic”
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Sable Island National Park Reserve is a thin crescent of shifting sand at the edge of the Continental Shelf, 290 kilometres southeast of Halifax. It is home to the famous Sable Island wild horses, grey seals and plants, birds and insects, and is known as the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for the more than 350 shipwrecks off its shores.
Scope & context
The park reserve as described on its Parks Canada page.
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