It’s not precisely true that no one goes to Anticosti Island, the windswept and shipwreck-ringed shard of land that sits where the St. Lawrence River meets the sea. There are the island’s 200-odd year ...

Sure, you’ve been to Montréal, and perhaps Québec City, but here’s a retreat that has likely been flying under your radar: Anticosti Island. Part of the pristine and aqueous Côte-Nord region, ...

High over the Bay of St. Lawrence, through scattered clouds, the shore of Anticosti Island appears in the distance. A 140-mile long, 40-60 mile wide expanse of wilderness, the name Anticosti is known ...

Towering forests of spruce and fir blanket your surroundings as limestone cliffs meet the crashing waves of the Gulf of St.

These are bedding surfaces covered in marine invertebrate fossils from the Late Ordovician (Ellis Bay Formation, Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada). Anticosti Island preserves one of the most ...

As the plane banked sharply, then angled down over a seemingly unending stand of black spruce, I thought back to my initial trip to Anticosti Island a full decade ago. Then, we’d landed on the ...