Editing Sable Island (section)

==In popular culture==
The unique landscape, history of shipwrecks, and wildlife, especially horses, have made Sable Island an iconic place in Atlantic Canada and attracted considerable international following.

===In non-fiction===
Shipwreck survivors published early survival narratives about their experiences at Sable Island, beginning with the sinking of the ''Delight'' in 1583.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baehre|first=Rainer K.|chapter=The Casting Away of the Delight|title=Outrageous Seas: Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters off Newfoundland, 1583–1893|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|date=1999|page=12}}</ref> The first formal history of the island, ''Sable Island: its History and Phenomena'', was written in 1894 by George Patterson. Many other histories of the island and its shipwrecks have been published since, such as Lyall Campbell's two books – ''Sable Island, Fatal and Fertile Crescent'' in 1974 and ''Sable Island Shipwrecks: Disaster and Survival at the North Atlantic Graveyard'' in 1994<ref>{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Lyall|date=2001|title=Sable Island Shipwrecks: Disaster and Survival at the North Atlantic Graveyard|publisher=Nimbus|isbn=1-55109-096-1}}</ref> – and more recently, ''A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island'', written in 2004 by [[Marq de Villiers]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=de Villiers|first1=Marq|last2=Hirtle|first2=Sheila|date=2004|publisher=McClelland & Stewart|title=A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island|isbn=0-7710-2642-0}}</ref> In his 1997 book, ''[[The Perfect Storm (book)|The Perfect Storm]]'', [[Sebastian Junger]] briefly describes the geography and history of the island.<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Perfect Storm (book)|The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea]]|last=Junger|first=Sebastian|author-link=Sebastian Junger|publisher=Norton|date=1997|pages=133–135}}</ref> [[Joshua Slocum]] describes Sable Island in ''[[Sailing Alone Around the World]]'' during his 1895 solo circumnavigation.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Slocum |first1=Joshua |title=Sailing Alone Around the World |date=1900 |publisher=The Century Company |url=http://www.rlyachts.net/SailingAloneAroundTheWorld.pdf}}</ref>

===In fiction===
The island has also inspired works of fiction beginning in 1802 when Nova Scotia author [[Thomas Chandler Haliburton]] published "The Sable Island Ghost", a story about a ghostly woman inspired by the loss of the brig ''Francis'' in 1798. His story helped raise support for the establishment of a rescue station on the island.<ref>{{cite book|last=McNeil|first=Gail Anne|chapter=Sable Island, the Graveyard of the Atlantic|editor-last=Cranston|editor-first=Tony|title=Disasters at Sea|date=1986|page=119}}</ref> Canadian writer [[James Macdonald Oxley]] wrote a youth novel ''The Wreckers of Sable Island'' in 1897. [[Frank Parker Day]]'s 1928 novel ''[[Rockbound]]'' features a vivid depiction of the sinking of the [[schooner]] ''Sylvia Mosher'' during the [[1926 Nova Scotia hurricane]] at Sable Island.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Gwendolyn|chapter=Afterword|title=Rockbound|publisher=University of Toronto Press|date=1989|page=302}}</ref> One of the island's most notable temporary residents was Nova Scotian author [[Thomas Head Raddall]], whose early experiences working at the wireless post there served as the inspiration for his 1950 novel ''The Nymph and the Lamp''.<ref name="Heath1991">{{cite book|last=Heath|first=Jeffrey M.|title=Profiles in Canadian Literature|url={{Google books|qmMRJzrllTwC|plainurl=yes}}|volume=7|date=September 1, 1991|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-55002-145-5|page=82}}</ref> In his novel ''The Templar Throne,'' published in June 2010, author Paul Christopher mentions the island as the final location of the [[Ark of the Covenant]], the True Ark of the Christian Old Testament.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Templar Throne|last=Christopher|first=P.|date=2010|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101198018|url={{Google books|4Sqp-Aaz9TIC|plainurl=yes}}|access-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref>

===In photography===
The dunes and horses of Sable Island have drawn many photographers. Among the first was [[Arthur Williams McCurdy]] who photographed the island, its horses and shipwrecks in 1898 for ''[[National Geographic]]'' during a visit with [[Alexander Graham Bell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=8281 |title=McCurdy, Arthur Williams |work=Canadian Dictionary of Biography |access-date=January 2, 2014}}</ref> A further ''National Geographic'' visit in the summer of 1964 yielded an article entitled ''Sable Island; Graveyard of the Atlantic''. In more recent times, [[Roberto Dutesco]], a fashion photographer, began taking photos of Sable horses in 1994 and features this work in a permanent photo exhibition entitled "Wild Horses of Sable Island" at his gallery in New York. Nova Scotian photographer Paul Illsley's photographs of Sable Island horses inspired both a Canadian stamp and coin in 2005.

===In music===
In 1970 [[Stompin' Tom Connors]] published his song "Sable Island" in 1970's ''Stompin' Tom Meets Big Joe Mufferaw''. Canadian folk singer [[Catherine McKinnon]] recorded a song arranged by Don Gillis also entitled "Sable Island" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1975. The first line of the [[Buck 65]] song "Blood of a Young Wolf" is "Ten thousand horses, Sable Island, endless summer."

===In documentaries===
The island has been the subject of many Canadian documentaries by the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] and the [[National Film Board of Canada]], beginning with the 1956 NFB film ''Sable Island'' by Allan Wargon, the 2003 NFB documentary ''Moving Sands'' by Phillipe Baylaucq,<ref>{{cite magazine|date=February 4, 2005|title=Moving Sands|last=Dimm|first=Jocelyn A.|magazine=CM Magazine|publisher=Manitoba Library Association|volume=XI|number=11|access-date=January 2, 2014|url=https://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol11/no11/movingsands.html|archive-date=November 7, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081107205751/http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol11/no11/movingsands.html}}</ref> and more recently, an episode of ''[[Land and Sea]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/landandsea/2013/06/sable-island.html |title=Land and Sea – Sable Island |work=CBC News |access-date=January 2, 2014}}</ref> In 2002 a documentary was released called ''Catching a Killer: The Mystery of Sable Island'' which investigated the possibility that [[Greenland shark]]s were to blame for the corkscrew lacerations on dead seals found washed up on the island.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Fisheries and Oceans Canada |date=December 19, 2016 |title=Greenland shark research |url=https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/sharks/bio-research/greenland-shark-eng.html |access-date=June 1, 2022}}</ref> A recent work about Sable Island is the 2015 Canadian-produced film, "S(t)able Island: The Beauty of the Free", created by Rae-Anne LaPlante. The film explores in-depth the wild horse population that has called Sable Island its home for over 250 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stableisland.com/ |title=Home |website=stableisland.com}}</ref> A number of international documentaries have also explored the island, including the 2007 film {{lang|fr|Île de sable}} made by Jean-François Ducrocq and Malek Sahraoui for [[France 3]], French public television.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bonnecompagnie.fr/catalogue/9/l.ile.de.sable.(.hd.)/|title=L'île de Sable (HD)|date=September 17, 2008|language=fr|publisher=Bonne Compagnie|archive-date=July 20, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720175754/http://www.bonnecompagnie.fr/catalogue/9/l.ile.de.sable.(.hd.)/#selection-67.0-74.0}}</ref> In 2007, Matt Trecartin of Halifax directed ''Chasing Wild Horses'', a documentary about photographer Roberto Dutesco and his photography of the Sable Island horses.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/chasing-wild-horses-documents-photographer-s-obsession-1.757862 |title=Chasing Wild Horses documents photographer's obsession |work=CBC News |date=September 17, 2008 |access-date=January 2, 2014}}</ref>
The most recent effort is a Canadian documentary film by [[Jacquelyn Mills]], titled ''[[Geographies of Solitude]]'', released in 2022. The 103-minute film features Zoe Lucas, an environmentalist and naturalist who lives on the island and studies the wild [[Sable Island horse]].<ref>Dustin Chang, [https://screenanarchy.com/2022/04/hot-docs-2022-review-geographies-of-solitude-lovely-contemplation-on-nature-filmmaking-human-existen.html "Hot Docs 2022 Review: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE, Lovely Contemplation on Nature, Filmmaking, Human Existence"]. ''[[Screen Anarchy]]'', April 27, 2022.</ref>

===In other films===
In the 1937 film ''[[Captains Courageous (1937 film)|Captains Courageous]]'', the fishing boat passes Sable Island on the way to the [[Grand Banks of Newfoundland]]. [[Spencer Tracy]]'s character Manuel later says his father died off Cape Sable. Sable Island is briefly featured in the 2000 feature film [[The Perfect Storm (film)|''The Perfect Storm'']], which depicts the sinking of the fishing vessel ''Andrea Gail'' near Sable, although the island is erroneously portrayed with trees and a giant stone lighthouse. Sable Island is the setting for the 2002 film ''Touching Wild Horses'' starring [[Jane Seymour (actress)|Jane Seymour]]; however, little attempt was made to mimic the natural landscape of Sable, with trees and rocks abounding in the background of most every scene. Instead, [[Sandbanks Provincial Park]] in Ontario stood in for the island in the film.{{citation needed|date=August 2022|reason=IMDb is not a reliable source}}

===In exhibits===
A permanent exhibit about Sable Island is featured at the [[Maritime Museum of the Atlantic]] in Halifax, which includes two rescue boats from Sable and numerous name boards and [[Figurehead (object)|figurehead]]s from Sable Island wrecks. Another permanent exhibit about Sable Island, exploring its ecology and the on-island researchers' work, is found at the [[Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History]]. The horses were featured in a 1994 exhibit at the Equine Museum of Japan in Yokohama.<ref name="novascotia"/>

===On radio===
On September 11, 2014, Don Connolly of CBC Radio's [[Information Morning]] broadcast part of the daily [[Current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] program from Sable Island. It was the first ever live public radio broadcast from the island.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sable Island: CBC makes history, broadcasting live from island: Information Morning broadcast live from Sable Island|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sable-island-cbc-makes-history-broadcasting-live-from-island-1.2762890|access-date=September 16, 2014|work=CBC News|date=September 11, 2014}}</ref>

In [[amateur radio]], Sable Island is considered a separate country with the unique call sign prefix CY0. Since enthusiasts collect contacts from different countries and there are few inhabitants on Sable Island, a contact from there would be considered a "rare DX". As a result, a number of private expeditions (known as [[DX-pedition]]s) to operate temporary radio stations on Sable Island have been mounted. The most recent DX-pedition is CY0S, which took place in March 2023.<ref name="onallbands.com">{{cite web | url=https://www.onallbands.com/dx-engineering-sponsors-march-2023-cy0s-sable-island-dxpeditionplus-a-look-at-some-sable-island-qsl-cards/ | title=DX Engineering Sponsors March 2023 CY0S Sable Island DXpedition... Plus, a Look at Some Sable Island QSL Cards | date=March 8, 2023}}</ref> There have also been DXpeditions in October 2012 (CY0),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dxnews.com/wa4dan-cy0_aa4vk-cy0_sable-island/ | title=WA4DAN/CY0 – AA4VK/CY0 – Sable Island – News}}</ref> March 2011 (CY0),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dxzone.com/dx26198/cy0-dxpedition-2011.html | title=CY0 DXpedition 2011}}</ref> July 2008 (CY0X),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.qrz.com/db/cy0x | title=CY0X Callsign Page}}</ref> November 2002 (CY0MM),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ddxg.dk/cy0mm.htm | title=Cy0mm}}</ref> October 1995 (CY0TP),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive/ARLD049/1995 | title=ARRL DX Bulletin ARLD049 (1995)}}</ref> and October 1975 (VX9A).<ref name="onallbands.com"/>