Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia

READING THE ATLAS

Many records.
One remembered coast.

This is a view of 2,020 matched records from a catalogue of 4,939. The lights mark official named places associated with written locations—not surveyed wreck sites. The other 2,919 records are here too. They count up as the years pass and appear in Explore records, each with the reason it has no map position.

The museum catalogue ends in 2001. From 2002 the atlas adds 147 vessels lost in Nova Scotia waters, as reported to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. They are drawn as small diamonds at the reported position; 22 lie beyond the edge of the map and are listed instead.

Rings distinguish vicinities and broad areas. Their size is symbolic, not a measured distance. Shared places accumulate records without inventing new positions.

One larger marker shows the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Its echo is the map's one real distance: it reaches Black Brook, Cape Breton, where a 1917 record says the blast was heard. An arrow at the edge points toward where the Titanic sank in 1912, far beyond this map.

The clock follows recorded years. Day-level precision, including many January 1 dates, needs further verification. The pattern reflects this catalogue and its geocoding coverage; it is not a verified history of changing wreck rates.