Île aux Marins

Île aux Marins lies a few minutes across the harbour from Saint-Pierre and is a village nobody lives in any more. Its fishing families left one by one until the last of them went, and the houses, the church of Notre-Dame-des-Marins and the school were kept rather than cleared. The school is now the Archipélitude museum, open through the summer when the ferry runs. The rusting hull of the Transpacific lies where it went aground on the shore. Paths cross the island between the houses and the cemetery, and the whole walk takes an afternoon.