Posts Tagged ‘ Sable Island ’

More Protection Proposed for Sable Island

February 16, 2010
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Halifax, NS -- The governments of Canada and Nova Scotia say they will try to pass laws to permanently protect the ecologically sensitive Sable Island, 290 kilometers (180 miles) off Halifax in the Atlantic Ocean. Authorities have not decided precisely what from protections will take. The island region is the site of many old shipwrecks,...

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