In this Google Maps image, Sheek s Island, southeast of Long Sault, Ont. is among four islands Ontario Power Generation plans to return to the Mohawks of Akwesasne. The other three islands are in Edwardsburgh-Cardinal and South Dundas. (Google Maps via Newswatch Group)
AKWESASNE – Four islands in the St. Lawrence River are being returned to the Mohawks of Akwesasne as the final piece of a settlement agreement with Ontario Power Generation.
Three of the islands around the Edwardsburgh-Cardinal and South Dundas municipal boundary are Prison Island (known as Adams Island), west of Cardinal, and Presqu’ile and Toussaint Islands, west of Iroquois.
It’s become a popular location for ironic Google reviews and jokey claims of residence. But Disappointment Island is far more than just a silly meme, writes Louise Fisher.
Four hundred seventy-five kilometres off the southern coast of the South Island lie the seven uninhabited islands known collectively as the Auckland Islands. While they have strong historic cultural and spiritual significance to Ngāi Tahu, the Auckland Islands are, in general, visited only by biologists and conservation workers. Still, one of the seven – the tiny Disappointment Island – has managed to take the internet by storm
If you’re not a local, you may have first come across Disappointment Island via Snapchat; in recent years it’s become a popular place to locate yourself on the social media platform’s Snap Map. After all, why say you’re at home, when you could claim to be hanging out on a subantarctic island with a hilariously ironic name? As the island’s notoriety has grown, so have the m
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Based on its magnitude, the fault that was active during the quake ruptured along a surface of approx. 40 km
2 (=15 sqare miles) as a first-order estimate. The length of the rupture zone thus was probably around 11 km (7 mi).
Aftershocks typically occur during the days and weeks following the quake at or near the same fault, at distances of up to approx. two times the length of the rupture zone.
The often broadly linear arrangement of aftershock epicenters encompasses the rupture zone of the main shock (check on the map below to verify).
Recorded aftershocks, latest first (0 quakes):
So far, no aftershocks have been registered.