The two neighbours and long-time allies have each long laid claim to the island and surrounding water, where the US state of ...

Canadians have also bestowed the lighthouse with "heritage status ... "Our long-standing position is that the Machias Seal Island belongs to the United States by virtue of the 1783 Treaty ...

There is also a large colony on Machias Seal Island on the Maine-New Brunswick border. Puffins spend most of their life at sea. But from April to August, they return to the breeding colony where ...

Canada regularly dispatches maintenance workers to Machias Seal Island to check on an automated lighthouse – evidence, they say, of their control. The Americans point to US Marines who occupied ...