Solid material used as ballast in sailing ships has been re-used in many various ways, the re-use as ballast being the most obvious. Another re-use is as building material. A prominent example of where ballast stones have been utilized in this way is Savannah, Georgia, in the southeast of the United States. Savannah was established as a British settlement in …
Little Norway: a ballast island – by Mats Burström
One of the sites in the ongoing study of ballast is the small island Little Norway (Sw. Lilla Norge) in the river Ångermanälven in the northern part of Sweden. The island got its somewhat peculiar name from the many Norwegian ships that dumped their ballast at a certain point in the river. During the second half of the 19th century …