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Why did a small island 42 km long become famous as a ship-eater?

Not far from Canada in the Atlantic Ocean is the island of Sable, which is called the "graveyard of the Atlantic" and the "ship-eater". The island, 42 kilometers long, has a narrow crescent shape and arose due to the meeting of the warm Gulf Stream with the cold Labrador current in this place. The main danger for ships stranded near Sable is its quicksand, which hid all types of ships from sailboats to steamboats, in total over 350 shipwrecks have been documented here. Another dangerous factor is the movement of the island - due to sand erosion on one side and alluvium on the other, Sable is moving east at a speed of more than 200 meters per year.

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