The Keyway Atlas
Every place we’ve poured, printed, and carved.
Each ring marks a finished piece. Open one to see the contours, the grain, and the place it came from.
About the blurred bits. Most of these were made for someone in particular, and many are engraved with a family name or the coordinates of a cottage. We blur those unless the owner has told us otherwise. The maps themselves are untouched.
Every waypoint
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Abiquiu Lake
Abiquiú, New Mexico, USA
About twelve miles up the Chama from this lake is a quarry that has produced at least a thousand dinosaurs of a single species. Edwin Colbert's…
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Bailey Island
Maine, USA
The bridge onto Bailey Island works by not resisting the water. Granite slabs stacked crosswise with gaps between them, and no mortar at all. The tide…
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Beach Pond
Connecticut, USA
Beach Pond is named for a sand beach that Rhode Island farmers rode to every June, not to swim, but to collect sand for sharpening scythes.…
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Beaver Lake
British Columbia, Canada
Beaver Lake sits at the bottom of a chain of five, and most of the lakes above it were named by one man who kept it…
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Bellevue
Talbot County, Maryland, USA
Bellevue was laid out as a town, complete with streets and a square, and none of it was ever built except the name. Oswald Tilghman drew…
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Bethany Beach
Bethany Beach, Delaware, USA
There are two kinds of water on this board. The Atlantic fills one side. The other is a scatter of shallow lagoons hiding behind a strip…
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Blue Mesa Reservoir
Gunnison, Colorado, USA
Blue Mesa is the largest body of water in Colorado. In 2021 some of it was released downstream to protect hydropower at Lake Powell. The dam…
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Buck Lake
South Frontenac, Ontario, Canada
The rock under this lake is a bridge, and species have been walking across it for thousands of years. The Frontenac Arch is a belt of…
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Cabo San Lucas
Mexico
The white channel down the middle of this board is a crack. Baja was part of mainland Mexico until about ten million years ago, and it…
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Calcasieu Lake
Louisiana, USA
Calcasieu Lake covers close to eighty square miles and averages about a metre deep. You could wade a long way out into it. It is not…
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Candlewood Lake
Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Candlewood Lake does not fill itself. Water is pumped up 200 feet from the Housatonic River, and has been since 1928. The Rocky River valley was…
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Chiblow Lake
Iron Bridge, Ontario, Canada
Chiblow is a family name here, and it belongs to the people who now own the lodge on this lake. Chiblow Lake Lodge opened in 1936…
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Chilliwack River
British Columbia, Canada
The same river carries two names. Above the bridge at Vedder Crossing it is the Chilliwack. Below the bridge it is the Vedder. Chilliwack comes from…
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Choctawhatchee Bay
Florida, USA
Four men with shovels changed this bay overnight. They were only trying to keep their houses from flooding. In the spring of 1929 heavy rain in…
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Christina Lake
Boundary Country, British Columbia, Canada
Cascade City, at the south end of Christina Lake, had about a thousand people and a dozen hotels in the late 1890s. It burned twice. The…
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Cobbosseecontee Lake
Winthrop, Maine, USA
There is a lighthouse on Cobbosseecontee Lake. A yacht club built it in 1908 and has looked after it ever since. The lake runs about nine…
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Colton
Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
In 1905 a Portland pastor bought 1,960 acres here, cut it into forty-acre farms, and sold them to Swedes. He called it Carlsborg. Carl J. Renhard…
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Commanda Lake
Ontario, Canada
Commanda began as a rank. An Anishinaabe warrior in the War of 1812 was addressed as Commander, the word stuck, and it became a family name.…
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Coquina Beach
Bradenton Beach, Florida, USA
The beach is named for a clam that surfs. Coquina, Donax variabilis, is a wedge-shaped bivalve about an inch long that lives in the swash zone,…
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Cos Cob Harbor
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
The show that brought modern European art to America in 1913 was partly organised from a boarding house on Cos Cob Harbor. Painters started coming in…
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Crawfish Lake
Riverside, Washington, USA
Which license you need on Crawfish Lake depends on where you are standing. The south half of it is Colville Reservation. Fish from a boat and…
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Crescent Lake
Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
Ontario Parks lists the Crescent Lake trail as a two kilometre loop. That was before the campground closed and the road grew over. The campground had…
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Dale Hollow Lake
Tennessee / Kentucky, USA
Dale Hollow does not look like a lake because it is not one. It is a river system that was flooded in 1943, and every branch…
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Desolation Sound
Desolation Sound, British Columbia, Canada
George Vancouver named Desolation Sound in June 1792 because he disliked the look of it. It has the warmest salt water on the coast. His journal…
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Eagle Lake
Vermilion Bay, Ontario, Canada
Eagle Lake covers about 275 square kilometres and has roughly 650 kilometres of shoreline, folded around something like 490 islands. The shape is Shield country under…
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Eels Lake
North Kawartha, Ontario, Canada
Eels Lake is not named for eels. It takes its name from Eel Cow, an Ojibwe chief who held the country here in the early 1800s.…
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Eyak Lake
Cordova, Alaska, USA
When the shaking finally stopped in Cordova, the harbor was too shallow to float a boat. The Good Friday earthquake of 27 March 1964 was magnitude…
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Flathead Lake
Montana, USA
Polson sits on the reason this lake is here. A glacier stalled at the south end and left behind the ridge of debris that still holds…
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Forgotten Coast
Panhandle, Florida, USA
The Forgotten Coast is a registered trademark. The Apalachicola Bay Chamber of Commerce first used it on September 1, 1992. The story behind it is that…
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Great Lakes
Ontario, Canada
There are five Great Lakes on this board, and hydrologists count four. Michigan and Huron sit at exactly the same elevation, 176 metres, joined by the…
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Green Lake
British Columbia, Canada
Green Lake is named for its colour, and the colour comes from the fact that it barely drains. The outlet only runs in high water. The…
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Green Lake
South Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada
Before the wagon road, Hudson's Bay Company brigades came through Green Lake on the trail between Fort Kamloops and Fort Alexandria. The brigades were pack trains…
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Green Lake
South Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada
A Hollywood cowboy paid to turn a Cariboo cattle ranch into a holiday, and it worked. The Flying U sits on the north shore of this…
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Green Lake
South Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada
One lake, two governments, and the line runs down the middle of it. Green Lake sits on the boundary between the Cariboo Regional District and the…
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Greers Ferry Lake
Heber Springs, Arkansas, USA
Seven weeks before Dallas, John F. Kennedy stood at the end of this lake and talked about the long view. The dedication of Greers Ferry Dam…
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Groton Long Point
New London County, Connecticut, USA
On September 21, 1938, a hurricane nobody had forecast came ashore here in the middle of the afternoon. It is still the worst storm in Connecticut's…
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Hamilton Lake
Dickinson County, Michigan, USA
Two of these three lakes are named after a surveyor's daughters. A government surveyor called Hamilton mapped this chain and recorded what he found: three bodies…
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Horsefly Lake
British Columbia, Canada
The salmon found the gold first. Sockeye spawning in the Horsefly River churned up the gravel and left the nuggets lying in plain sight. In the…
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Horsefly Lake (Lake Only)
British Columbia, Canada
The lake is named after the flies. Nobody has ever dressed it up as anything else. Horsefly first appeared on a map in 1871, in a…
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Hubbles Lake
Parkland County, Alberta, Canada
This lake is barely half a square kilometre and it goes down thirty metres. Hubbles is a pothole lake in Parkland County, west of Edmonton, with…
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Hurricane Hill
Olympic National Park, Washington, USA
The Olympic marmot lives on this hill and nowhere else on earth. Ice cut the peninsula off long enough for it to become its own animal.…
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Island Lake
Shelton, Washington, USA
Island Lake sits at the north edge of Shelton, about 105 acres of water with one small island in the middle of it. Public access is…
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Kahshe Lake
Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada
Kahshe Lake is reckoned to have more islands than any other main lake in Muskoka. Many of its rocks sit just below the surface, unmarked. The…
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Kamloops Lake
British Columbia, Canada
The name Kamloops describes a shape seen from above, which is more or less what this board is. Tk'emlúps is the Secwépemc name for the confluence…
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Kawawaymog Lake
Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada
Kawawaymog sits just outside Algonquin, and for a great many canoe trips it is where the park begins. This is Access Point 1. Locally it is…
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Kawkawa Lake
Hope, British Columbia, Canada
Kawkawa Lake drains into Sucker Creek, where an old railway grade starts and runs east into five tunnels blasted through granite. The Kettle Valley Railway needed…
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Knouff Lake
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Almost everyone calls this lake Knouff. On the map it is Sullivan Lake, and the real Knouff is a shallow pond just north of it. The…
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Knox Lake
Limestone County, Texas, USA
Knox Lake is about 21 acres of water in Limestone County, where the Blackland Prairie gives way to the Post Oak Savannah. That transition is the…
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Lac Blaskie
Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada
Until 2003 this municipality was called Leslie-Clapham-et-Huddersfield. Three English township names joined by a French conjunction, which is a fair summary of the Pontiac. Huddersfield was…
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Lac Boileau
Rivière-Rouge, Quebec, Canada
Quebec keeps an official register of its place names. Lac Boileau was entered in 1968, and the line for the name's origin is blank. The Commission…
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Lac Cameron
Laurentides, Québec, Canada
Lac Cameron runs about five and a half kilometres end to end, a kilometre or so across at the widest, and has no islands in it.…
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Lac des Îles
Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
Lac des Îles is about 21 kilometres long and has 120 kilometres of shoreline, most of it inside Meadow Lake Provincial Park. The Cold River comes…
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Lake Coeur d'Alene
Idago, USA
Higgens Point sits at the eastern tip of this lake, and for a few weeks each winter it is one of the best places in Idaho…
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Lake Conway
Orlando, Florida, USA
In 1977 this chain was picked for a federal experiment. Could a fish from the Amur River eat an invasive weed faster than it grew? Hydrilla…
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Lake Country
Lake Country, British Columbia, Canada
The benches these orchards sit on are the floor of a lake that has been gone for ten thousand years. At the end of the last…
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Lake Cumberland
Burnside, Kentucky, USA
Wolf Creek Dam sits on limestone full of caves and channels, and for most of its life water has been finding its way underneath it. The…
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Lake Eunice
Minnesota, USA
This lake is the shape of a piece of ice. Round lakes in Minnesota are molds, left behind where a buried block of glacier finally melted…
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Lake Fairlee
Upper Valley, Vermont, USA
Ten children's summer camps opened on Lake Fairlee between 1906 and 1921. Several of them are still running. The lake is small, set in the hills…
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Lake Fairlee
Upper Valley, Vermont, USA
Vermont has banned wakesports on Lake Fairlee. It is one of twelve lakes covered by the rule. Wake boats can still run on it. What they…
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Lake Hartwell
South Carolina, USA
The lake is named for a woman who is said to have captured six Loyalist soldiers single handed, and there may be a grave that proves…
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Lake Holiday
Indiana, USA
Rain landing on one side of this community ends up in the Gulf of Mexico. Rain on the other side ends up in the Atlantic. Lakes…
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Lake June in Winter
Lake Placid, Florida, USA
The man who organized the world's libraries also renamed this town. Melvil Dewey built the Lake Placid Club in the Adirondacks in the 1890s and wanted…
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Lake Keowee
Oconee County, South Carolina, USA
This lake was dug deeper than the valley required, because a nuclear plant needed the volume. Duke Power began clearing the basin in 1967. Woods were…
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Lake Lewis
Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Rain falling on this lake reaches the Atlantic. Rain falling three kilometres east reaches the Bay of Fundy. Lake Lewis sits near the centre of mainland…
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Lake Lyndon B. Johnson
Marble Falls, Texas, USA
Most reservoirs rise and fall by tens of feet through the year. Lake LBJ is held at one elevation, more or less permanently. It sits third…
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Lake Lyndon B. Johnson
Horseshoe Bay, Texas, USA
Two rivers meet inside this lake rather than above it. The Colorado comes down from the north, the Llano comes in from the west, and they…
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Lake Mendota
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Madison's ice cutters started writing down the day Lake Mendota froze in 1852, so they would know when their season was coming. They have not stopped.…
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Lake Michigan
Highland Park, Illinois, USA
On a clear Saturday morning in 1954, the lake rose eight feet in seconds and took eight people off the Chicago shore. There had been thunderstorms…
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Lake Minnewaska
Long Beach, Minnesota, USA
Lake Minnewaska has had at least four names, and the last one had to be settled by an act of the Minnesota legislature. The oldest recorded…
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Lake Morey
Upper Valley, Vermont, USA
Lake Morey freezes into what is generally reckoned the longest ice skating trail in the United States. The route runs about four and a half miles…
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Lake Naomi
Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania, USA
The right to swim in Lake Naomi went to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 1938, and law students have been reading about it ever since. The…
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Lake Norman
Mooresville, North Carolina, USA
Lake Norman runs three power stations. It spins turbines at Cowans Ford, cools a coal plant, and cools two nuclear reactors. Duke Power dammed the Catawba…
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Lake of Bays
Muskoka, Ontario, Canada
For 55 years a railway ran from Lake of Bays to the next lake over. It was a mile and an eighth long and billed itself…
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Lake of the Woods
Kenora, Ontario, Canada
This lake has more shoreline than Lake Superior, and it is a twentieth of the size. Lake of the Woods covers about 4,350 square kilometres. Superior…
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Lake Pend
Idaho, USA
The US Navy tests submarines here, three hundred and seventy five miles from the nearest ocean. Lake Pend Oreille runs about 1,150 feet deep, fifth deepest…
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Lake Placid
Adirondacks, New York, USA
The village of Lake Placid is not on Lake Placid. Main Street, the Olympic oval and the arena all sit on Mirror Lake, a different water.…
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Lake Powell
Glen Canyon, Utah, USA
In January 1880 a Mormon expedition lowered 83 wagons down a crevice in the canyon wall to the Colorado River, which is now under this lake.…
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Lake Pressy
Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada
The Elephant Hill fire started near Ashcroft on July 6, 2017, and reached Pressy Lake, about 100 kilometres away, on August 12. It took 37 days…
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Lake St Clair
St. Clair Shores, Michigan, USA
Lake St. Clair averages about 11 feet deep. The shipping channel cut across it is 27.5 feet, deeper than any natural point in the lake. Everything…
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Lake Sunapee
Sunapee, New Hampshire, USA
For most of the year the Sunapee trout was a plain silver fish. In the fall the males turned gold, which is how it got its…
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Lake Tahoe
California, USA
The woman who helped pay for Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic built a stone tea house on the only island in this lake. Lora Josephine Knight…
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Lake Temiskaming
Quebec, Canada
Lake Temiskaming is a crack in the continent that never finished opening. It runs 110 kilometres and is in places only a few hundred metres wide.…
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Lake Winnipeg
Matlock, Manitoba, Canada
Rain falling near the Rocky Mountain foothills eventually arrives here. Lake Winnipeg drains a basin of roughly a million square kilometres, the second largest watershed in…
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Lake Winnipesaukee
Alton, New Hampshire, USA
Winter ends here when one man in a small plane says it does. Ice-Out on Winnipesaukee is declared when the M/S Mount Washington could reach all…
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Lake Wissota
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, USA
In Titanic, Jack Dawson tells Rose about ice fishing on Lake Wissota. The lake did not exist yet. The ship went down in April 1912. This…
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Lower Fletcher Lake
Ontario, Canada
There is a tower above Dorset that was built to watch for fire. It stopped being useful in 1962, so they put up a taller one.…
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Luzerne
Luzerne, Michigan, USA
Every Kirtland's warbler nest found since 1903 has been within about fifty miles of one spot in this county. That summer a University of Michigan naturalist…
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Mabel Lake
North Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
Every spring for decades, logs were floated down the Shuswap River into Mabel Lake, boomed together, and towed the length of it. The drives came off…
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Manitouwabing Lake
Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada
Manitouwabing runs about eighteen kilometres end to end and carries close to a hundred and twenty kilometres of shoreline. It is almost all edge. That ratio…
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Mara Lake
Shuswap, British Columbia, Canada
The road along Mara Lake was built by men imprisoned beside it. Two internment camps operated here between 1915 and 1917. They were Ukrainian and other…
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Marsh Lake
Yukon, Canada
It was called Mud Lake until 1883, when an American explorer renamed it after a dinosaur hunter who had helped pay for his trip. Frederick Schwatka…
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Martha's Vineyard
Cape Cod and Islands, Massachusetts, USA
For roughly two hundred years almost everyone on Martha's Vineyard could sign, because so many islanders were born deaf. The trait came down from Jonathan Lambert,…
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Mayne Island
British Columbia, Canada
For forty years this island grew tomatoes under glass. On 21 April 1942 the people who grew most of them were taken away. Richard Hall came…
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Mazinaw Lake
Ontario, Canada
The lake is named after the paintings on it. Mazinaabikinigan-zaaga'igan, painted-image lake, for the pictographs on the cliff above the water. Mazinaw Rock stands about a…
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Missezula Lake
Princeton, British Columbia, Canada
Missezula Lake has no permanent population. About 190 seasonal lots sit at the south end, at the far end of 30 kilometres of gravel. The lake…
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Mount Lawrence Grassi
Canmore, Alberta, Canada
In 1896 a Chinese cook named Ha Ling bet fifty dollars that he could climb this peak, plant a flag and be back in Canmore inside…
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Mount Olympus
Jefferson County, Washington, USA
Mount Olympus is under 8,000 feet and carries seven glaciers. That combination is the whole point of this mountain. At 7,980 feet it is modest by…
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Mount St. Helens
Skamania County, Washington, USA
Every lake on this board was made or remade on a single morning in May 1980. At 8:32 on May 18, an earthquake beneath the volcano…
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Narragansett Bay
Rhode Island, USA
Rhode Island is named after an island in this bay, and nobody is entirely sure why. Aquidneck, the largest island in Narragansett Bay, was formally renamed…
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Nation Lakes
Omineca, British Columbia, Canada
Water leaving the Nation Lakes ends up in the Arctic Ocean. The chain drains east into the Peace, and from there north through the Mackenzie. The…
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Newfoundland
Newfoundland, Canada
Newfoundland is a seam. The west of it was North America, the east was attached to Africa, and the middle is the floor of a vanished…
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Nimpo Lake
West Chilcotin, British Columbia, Canada
The bays on this lake have names because the pilots needed them. Nimpo is called the floatplane capital of British Columbia and is the home base…
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North Fork
Suffolk County, New York, USA
In 1973 a young couple bought a potato farm in Cutchogue and planted European wine grapes in it. Everyone told them the climate was wrong. Alex…
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North Wildwood
Cape May County, New Jersey, USA
The widest beaches in New Jersey sit just south of here, and the sand used to be here. North Wildwood once had the largest beach in…
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North Wind Lake
Greenstone, Ontario, Canada
The relics are real. The story about them was not. In 1931 a part-time prospector named Eddy Dodd said he had blasted a trench on his…
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Okanagan Lake
British Columbia, Canada
The being in this lake has two names. One is thousands of years old. The other came from a novelty song, first heard in Vernon in…
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Okanagan Lake
Vernon, British Columbia, Canada
Okanagan Lake can be a hundred metres deep ten metres from shore. When Kelowna needed a bridge, the answer was to float one. The lake is…
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Orange County
Southern California, California, USA
When the name Orange County was proposed in 1872, there was not a single orange grove in it. The name was a sales pitch. Southern California…
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Oregon Coast
Lincoln County, Oregon, USA
Every beach on this coast is public, and Oregon nearly lost that over a row about some driftwood. In 1913 Governor Oswald West got the legislature…
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Ortley Beach
Toms River, New Jersey, USA
Those comb shapes along the mainland shore were salt marsh until somebody dredged them. Barnegat Bay filled up fast. Ocean County held about 108,000 people in…
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Osoyoos Lake
South Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
How high Osoyoos Lake sits is decided in Washington State, at a dam on the Okanogan River about three kilometres below the outlet. The lake crosses…
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Pamet River
Truro, Massachusetts, USA
The Pamet crosses Cape Cod almost end to end, and the Atlantic keeps trying to finish the job. At the eastern end of this valley the…
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Panorama
Columbia Valley, British Columbia, Canada
The Columbia River starts about 40 kilometres south of here and then runs the wrong way. It flows north for roughly 300 kilometres before it can…
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Pender Island
Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada
Pender was one island until 1903, when a canal was cut through the low neck in the middle so a steamer could stop going the long…
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Pernette Lake
Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Between 1749 and 1752 Britain recruited about 2,500 German, Swiss and French-speaking Protestants to Nova Scotia, to balance the Catholic Acadians. They came from the Palatinate,…
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Pikes Peak
Front Range, Colorado, USA
The green line on this map is a burro trail. Fred Barr surveyed it in 1918, a job the local paper reported everyone had called impossible.…
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Pikes Peak
Front Range, Colorado, USA
The orange line was built as a toll road in 1915. The race that made it famous was invented the following year, to get people to…
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Pitt Lake
Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada
This is fresh water, forty kilometres from the sea, and it rises and falls with the Pacific tide. Pitt Lake sits about three metres above sea…
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Presque Isle County
Presque Isle County, Michigan, USA
The man who designed the tall lighthouse here had spent the previous decade at war. Orlando Poe was Sherman's chief engineer through the March to the…
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Prince of Wales Island
Alaska, USA
A young man lived on this coastline about ten thousand three hundred years ago and ate almost nothing but seafood. His descendants are still here. His…
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Queen's Creek
Hubert, North Carolina, USA
Otway Burns was born at the mouth of Queen's Creek around 1775 and became the most celebrated privateer North Carolina ever produced. He and a New…
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Rappahannock River
Tidewater, Virginia, USA
The Rappahannock ran behind a dam at Fredericksburg for most of a century. In February 2004 army engineers blew a hole in it. Embrey Dam went…
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Salt Spring Island
British Columbia, Canada
Among the first settlers on Salt Spring Island in 1859 were Black Californians who came north for a place where they could own land. They had…
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Salt Spring Island
Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada
Before anyone settled here, a delegation went to Victoria to ask what treatment they could expect. California had passed laws targeting Black residents in 1858, and…
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San Diego Bay
San Diego, California, USA
Coronado used to be two islands, and the water between them is on old charts under the name Spanish Bight. The Navy filled it during the…
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San Juan Islands
Washington, USA
In 1859 the United States and Britain very nearly went to war over these islands. The only casualty was a pig. The Oregon Treaty had put…
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San Luis Pass
Galveston, Texas, USA
San Luis Pass is one of only two natural tidal inlets left on the Texas coast. It has never been jettied and it has never been…
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Sand Lake
Oregon, USA
Sand Lake is not a lake. It is a tidal inlet that fills from the ocean and empties twice a day, and at low tide most…
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Sanibel Island
Florida, USA
Most barrier islands run north-south. Sanibel runs east-west, and that quirk of orientation is why its beaches are buried in shells. The island sits sideways to…
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Santorini
Greece
The curve of Santorini is the rim of a crater. Its centre blew out roughly 3,600 years ago and the Aegean rushed in to fill what…
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Saugatuck Reservoir
Connecticut, USA
There is a village under this water. Valley Forge, an eighteenth century iron and steel town, flooded in the early 1940s to make drinking water. The…
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Sebago Lake
Maine, USA
The landlocked salmon of the northeast are named after this lake. Salmo salar sebago, sea salmon that got left behind when the ocean withdrew. As the…
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Sheridan Lake
South Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada
Sheridan Lake gets something like three hundred thousand rainbow trout put into it every year. The lake runs about 1,660 hectares, spring-fed, with shallow shoals and…
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Shuswap Lake
Columbia-Shuswap, British Columbia, Canada
Shuswap Lake has four arms and they all meet in one place, a gap called Cinnemousun Narrows in the middle of the lake. Salmon Arm runs…
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Sidney
British Columbia, Canada
Sidney sits at the top of the Saanich Peninsula, looking out at two countries' worth of islands scattered across the Salish Sea. North of the town…
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Silver Lake
Washington, USA
The water that shaped this part of Washington came from a lake in Montana, and it arrived all at once. During the last ice age a…
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Sproat Lake
Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
The rock these carvings are cut into is known as the house of Kwatyat. K'ak'awin is a panel of nine figures on a vertical rock face…
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St John
US Virgin Islands, USA
On November 23, 1733, enslaved Akwamu men carried weapons into the Danish fort at Coral Bay hidden in a delivery of firewood. They took the fort…
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Starovice
South Moravia, Czech Republic
About 86 kilometres north of Vienna, the army of Marcus Aurelius built a fortified base deep inside Germanic territory. This was the Marcomannic Wars, between 166…
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Sweetwater Lake
Nineveh, Indiana, USA
The developer who started Sweetwater Lake went broke before it was finished, and the lot buyers had to complete it themselves. Howard Prince had already built…
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Thames River
London, Ontario, Canada
Frederick Banting woke at two in the morning on 31 October 1920, in a house on Adelaide Street in London, and wrote about twenty-five words. He…
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Trout Lake
Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA
American limnology, the study of lakes, was largely built at a field station on Trout Lake that started in a borrowed schoolhouse in 1925. E.A. Birge…
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Two Sisters Lake
Wisconsin, USA
Ten percent of Oneida County is water. Not shoreline or wetland, open water: eleven hundred lakes and rivers inside one county. There are 1,129 of them,…
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Upper Captiva Island
Lee County, Florida, USA
North Captiva was part of Captiva Island until October 1921, when a hurricane cut a channel through and made it separate. The new pass was 4,127…
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Vancouver Island
Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver Island is not really an island. It is the top of a mountain range that happens to be mostly underwater. That is why the coast…
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Ucluelet
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
The Pass of Melfort went ashore at Ucluelet on Christmas Day 1905 and everyone aboard was lost. A lighthouse followed the next year. It was a…
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Vancouver Island
British Columbia, Canada
To make this passage safe, engineers tunneled under the seabed and blew the top off a mountain nobody could see. Ripple Rock was a twin peaked…
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Whidbey Island
Puget Sound, Washington, USA
The National Park Service protects about 17,500 acres of Whidbey Island and owns almost none of it. Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve was authorized in November…
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White Lake
Woodgate, New York, USA
The Blue Line runs just south of this lake. Cross it and the rules change completely. The Adirondack Park covers six million acres, which is larger…
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Wilson Pond
North Monmouth, Maine, USA
In 1942 the local fish and game club seined Wilson Pond to get the white perch out of it. Brown trout went in the following year.…
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