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Hurricane Island -- the town that disappeared

by Eleanor Motley Richardson

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Published by Island Institute in cooperation with Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Rockland, Me .
Written in

    Places:
  • Hurricane Island (Me. : Town)
    • Subjects:
    • Hurricane Island (Me. : Town) -- History.,
    • Hurricane Island (Me. : Town) -- Biography.

    • Edition Notes

      Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119)

      StatementEleanor Motly Richardson ; with an introduction by Philip W. Conkling.
      ContributionsIsland Institute (Rockland, Me.), Hurricane Island Outward Bound School.
      Classifications
      LC ClassificationsF29.H87 R53 1989
      The Physical Object
      Paginationxx, 124 p. :
      Number of Pages124
      ID Numbers
      Open LibraryOL2230753M
      ISBN 100942719085
      LC Control Number89084724
      OCLC/WorldCa21197475

        Hurricane Walaka, one of the most powerful Pacific storms ever recorded, has erased East Island, which is part of French Frigate Shoals in the .   This summer marked the 50th anniversary of Maine's Outward Bound programs. Outward Bound used Hurricane Island as a base for their sea programs .

        Sometimes, they’d lose consciousness. In , Snowcloud Five, part of the air force’s Airborne Early Warning Squadron, disappeared in Hurricane Janet. Nine crew members and two reporters were lost. Then, in , a Hurricane Hunter C crashed in the South China Sea while attempting a reconnaissance flight of Typhoon : Penguin Publishing Group.   Researchers confirmed East Island in the French Frigate Shoals received significant damage as a result of Hurricane Walaka — a powerful Category 4 storm — roaring over the : Adam Frisk.

        Hurricane Walaka, which churned over the Pacific Ocean in early October, quietly made the remote East Island of Hawaii disappear from satellite : Alix Martichoux. The geography of the Delaware Bay offered a hint at what Hurricane Sandy would bring to the Bayshore. Between the Cape May Peninsula and the narrow spit of sand that makes up Delaware’s Cape Henlopen State Park, the bay’s mouth stretches just over eleven miles, nearly identical to that of the Chesapeake, miles to the south.


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