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Zembla tower near Protar’s memorial

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Summary

Zembla is a named tower or tower-like structure near Protar’s memorial on Beaver Island. A contemporaneous Beaver Beacon account preserved in the forum attributes its construction to director Frank Galati and describes it as an adjunct to his home and guest home, with a timber walk down the bluff. A July 2003 Beacon account independently refers to visitors climbing its steps.

Evidence limits

The sources establish a contemporaneous name and description, but not an exact map point, construction date, legal ownership, architectural form, or current condition. This record is intentionally unmapped until a stronger locator is found.

Sources

  1. The Beaver Beacon account identifies Zembla as a tower built by director Frank Galati as an adjunct to his home and guest home, and describes a timber walk down the bluff. The source is a contemporaneous publisher-account post preserved in the forum, not a deed, architectural survey, or public-land record.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000045
  2. Beaver Beacon, July 2003, “Camp Quality does Beaver Island.”
    The Camp Quality account says participants climbed down and back up the steps at Zembla after visiting Protar’s Home. It corroborates the name and the existence of accessible steps but does not locate or describe the tower in detail. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 9 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Zembla tower near Protar’s memorial”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/structures/zembla/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “what is zembla?,” June 11–26, 2003. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-09. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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