25 - North Manitou Island

This photograph pair is of the west shore of North Manitou Island, specifically south of the Crescent Dock area. At the time of the original photograph, in approximately 1905, bare sand is noticeable along the dune slipfaces of the bluffs across the bay and among the foredunes up the shore. By 2019, grasses and trees have expanded across all of these areas with the exception of the rocky beach.

The research team would like to thank the staff at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore for their assistance in recapturing this photograph. In particular, we’d like to thank Capt. David Schoeder and the Nahma for transportation across the Manitou Passage to the island.

LAT: 45.111807, LON: -86.058765

Photo Credit – 1905, National Park Service; 2019, Kevin McKeehan, Michigan State University.

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