Missing the Island

A light-hearted look at a small selection of maps and graphics that have omitted P.E.I. Geologists are not sure when it first happened. At some point in the distant past, the waters surrounding Prince Edward Island wore away at its sandstone base until the land mass came free, adrift. It floated out into the Atlantic—becoming the source of the Atlantis legend, some believe—until the tides carried it back once again to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Its Mi’kmaq passengers named the isle Abegweit: loosely translated as “cradled on the waves.”