Machias Seal Island Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island disputed between the United States (Maine) and Canada (New Brunswick)
About Machias Seal Island
The southernmost point in New Brunswick, the rocky 6-ha (15-acre) Machias Seal Island is home to the last of the manned lighthouses inCanada. Two lighthouse keepers are deployed by helicopter for a four-week tour of duty, before being relieved by a new pair. The island is a Canadian Wildlife Service sanctuary and nesting ground for thousands of pairs of Atlantic puffins, a thousand pair of razorbill auk, and hundreds of common murres, as well as a few common and Arctic terns. There are very limited facilities to bring passengers ashore from boats; typically a tour operator will transfer at most 15 passengers at a time onto small craft for landing. There are a few blinds from which to view the birds unobtrusively, but the amount of time a voyager may spend ashore at the bird sanctuary is st
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