Crossword Puzzle
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3. The most important plant on Sable Island. It traps sand and holds the dunes together. | 1. Pieces of a shipwreck that are gathered up and sold are called________. |
6. What the men of the Humane Establishment tried to do to sailors when 10 down did happen. | 2. Sable Island is this direction away from Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
7. On clear days, lifesaving crews climbed towers and looked through this to spot wrecks. | 4. Some Scallop and Oyster _____ found on Sable Island's beaches are thousands of years old, from a time when the ocean was warmer. |
8. _________ are extinct on Sable Island because they were hunted for their tusks and oil. | 5. Another word for ship. |
9. Tricky _______ in the waters around Sable Island made it hard for sailing ships to navigate. | 10. Modern ships use this to "see" Sable Island through the fog. |
12. What sailors hoped would not happen to them on Sable Island. | 11. A type of sailing ship--many of the vessels that sank off Sable Island were these. The Bluenose on the Canadian dime is one of them too. |
13. Sable Island nickname: The _______yard of the Atlantic. | 13. Thousands of _______ seals breed on Sable Island. |
15. One of the biggest causes of shipwrecks. Sable has 125 days of this a year. | 14. Lifesaving crew shot a rope out to the shipwreck with a line-throwing ________. |
16. A hill of sand. | |
17. The ________ buoy was a pair of pants sewn to a life ring; it was used for rescues close to the island. | |
18. Shipwreck survivors stayed in the _______ home until the steamer came to take them to Halifax. |