Apple Island is one of two neighbouring islands, alongside Frog Island, that the Oak Island team has identified as potentially holding physical evidence connected to whoever worked on Oak Island. Dan Blankenship's formation of the Mahone Bay Exploration Company in 1994 was the first formal acknowledgment that the original operation may have…
A small island half a mile east of Oak Island, surveyed in 2019 after Travis Taylor's star map theory pointed to three boulders on its shore.
About This Site
Location
Apple Island sits roughly half a mile east of Oak Island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. It is one of more than three hundred islands scattered across the bay and lies within the cluster that includes Oak Island, Frog Island, and the smaller shoals between them. The island has no permanent settlement and falls outside the treasure trove area covered by the active Oak Island licenses.
The Mahone Bay Exploration Company
Apple Island first entered the modern search through Dan Blankenship. In 1994, after decades of work on Oak Island, he formed the Mahone Bay Exploration Company specifically to investigate Frog Island and Apple Island. The effort produced no significant discoveries, and the line of investigation was not continued.
Travis Taylor's Star Map Survey
Apple Island returned to the active investigation when astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor joined the Oak Island team. Travis presented a theory connecting Freemasonry to the layout of the island and its neighbours, proposing that a star map hidden inside the Masonic Hiram Abiff drawing template aligned the constellation Taurus with specific points across Oak Island, Frog Island, and Apple Island. He identified the corresponding GPS coordinates on the ground and recommended a survey of each of the three islands.
Jack Begley, Gary Drayton, and diver Tony Sampson boated across to Apple Island to test the theory. At the coordinates Travis had supplied they located three massive boulders, two of white granite and one of pinkish-red stone. The stones were consistent in size and arrangement with the markers found at other points indicated by the star map on Oak Island itself. Gary's metal detector registered multiple iron targets at the site and at least one promising non-ferrous signal. The team made no excavation. Their treasure trove license covered Oak Island only, and Apple Island lay outside its boundary.
Status
No excavation permit has since been issued for Apple Island, and the boulders identified during the survey remain in place. The metal-detector signals recorded that day have not been investigated further. Apple Island stands as one of two neighbouring islands, with Frog Island, that the Lagina team has identified as potentially holding physical evidence connected to whoever worked on Oak Island. Confirmation would require a separate license and an archaeological survey of the site.
Connection to Oak Island
Apple Island is one of two neighbouring islands, alongside Frog Island, that the Oak Island team has identified as potentially holding physical evidence connected to whoever worked on Oak Island. Dan Blankenship's formation of the Mahone Bay Exploration Company in 1994 was the first formal acknowledgment that the original operation may have extended beyond the boundaries of Oak Island itself. Dr. Travis Taylor's 2019 star map analysis brought Apple Island back into the active investigation, and the three boulders located at his predicted coordinates remain the most tangible result yet produced by a celestial theory applied to the Mahone Bay cluster. Whether those boulders are a natural glacial deposit or a deliberate marker placed by the same hand that worked Oak Island has not been determined.
Fieldwork Notes
Apple Island has not been the subject of independent fieldwork outside the 2019 Lagina survey. No published archaeological assessment exists for the island, and no GPS coordinates, photographs, or measurements of the three boulders identified during Travis Taylor's star map survey have been released into the public record. The Mahone Bay Exploration Company records from 1994 have not been made public, so what Dan Blankenship examined on Apple Island during that period and what he concluded is not documented in any source available to the modern investigation. A useful baseline would include photography of the three boulders with scale reference, lithological identification of the white granite and pinkish-red stone, GPS fixes accurate to one metre, and a non-destructive geophysical scan of the immediate surroundings. None of this work has been undertaken.
