Mink Island

Mink Island (50˚06'00" 124˚46'00" Desolation Sd, NE end of Str of Georgia, NW of Powell R). Named by Admiralty surveyors about 1861 in association with nearby Otter I and Martin Is after local fur-bearing animals (though Martin should really be Marten). In 1945, because another Mink I existed only 60 km away in Cordero Channel, regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau changed the name to Repulse I, after HMS Repulse, the Pacific Station flagship, 1872–77. The island’s owner, Eustace “Rui”...

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