Zena Halpern's Oak Island Survey: A Fresh 1684 Interpretation Jerald Lee Harrah Jr., Independent Researcher, Pleasanton, California

This paper presents original analysis identifying a handwritten French map of Oak Island—featuring “Le triangle de Pierre,” dual latrines, soupape valves, and chêne path markers—discovered in Zena Halpern’s collection, as the 1684 field survey of Pierre Puget (1620–1694), Louis XIV’s chief naval sculptor-engineer. At age 64, Puget personally sited the South Shore stone triangle (pointing to Money Pit), prototyped camp infrastructure, and drafted the chart during a reconnaissance voyage from Toulon to Acadia. Practical features refute medieval Templar dating, proving 17th-century French naval origin. Lost in the 1793 Toulon archive fires, Puget’s “signature” reframes Oak Island as Louis XIV’s treasure depot.