by rstevenson » Thu Jun 30, 2016 5:56 pm
Chris Peterson wrote:EmptyM wrote:sacamato wrote:Hey, what's the big bunch of light pollution south east of St. John's, Newfoundland? That's about where the Titanic is, although, and I'm no expert, but I don't think it's that bright.
I was wondering the same thing. Being unfamiliar what that part of the world, I pulled up google earth, and found only empty water.
Most likely it's a fishing fleet. There are a number of heavily light polluted regions on this map which are the result of fishing fleets.
There's oil drilling and production at the Hibernia, Terra Nova, and White Rose fields off the SE coast of Newfoundland. They're quite close together, just in the area where the light appears on the map. The Hibernia platform alone is the world's largest, so I imagine there's a lot of light in that area, 24 hours a day. The much smaller gas production facility near Sable Island also shows on the light pollution map, just below the easternmost point of Nova Scotia.
Fishing is largely banned in that area. No vast fleets of trawlers there, though a short distance to the south, in the US-controlled part of the Grand Banks, fishing goes on as the powers that be wish it to.
Rob
[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="EmptyM"][quote="sacamato"]Hey, what's the big bunch of light pollution south east of St. John's, Newfoundland? That's about where the Titanic is, although, and I'm no expert, but I don't think it's that bright.[/quote]
I was wondering the same thing. Being unfamiliar what that part of the world, I pulled up google earth, and found only empty water.[/quote]
Most likely it's a fishing fleet. There are a number of heavily light polluted regions on this map which are the result of fishing fleets.[/quote]
There's oil drilling and production at the Hibernia, Terra Nova, and White Rose fields off the SE coast of Newfoundland. They're quite close together, just in the area where the light appears on the map. The Hibernia platform alone is the world's largest, so I imagine there's a lot of light in that area, 24 hours a day. The much smaller gas production facility near Sable Island also shows on the light pollution map, just below the easternmost point of Nova Scotia.
Fishing is largely banned in that area. No vast fleets of trawlers there, though a short distance to the south, in the US-controlled part of the Grand Banks, fishing goes on as the powers that be wish it to.
Rob