Hull Island is an
island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
in the
Central Coast region of
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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, located in
Havannah Channel to the east of the southern end of
East Cracroft Island
East Cracroft Island is an island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is the smaller of the two Cracroft Islands, and at low tide is really one island with its larger neighbour, West Cracro ...
.
Name origin
The island was named c.1860 by Captain Richards of the
Royal Navy
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, for
Thomas Arthur Hull, ship's master of under Captain
Thomas Harvey, namesake of
Port Harvey which is just to the west, forming a bay between the two nearly-joined Cracroft Islands. ''Havannah'' served on the
Pacific Station
The Pacific Station was created in 1837 as one of the geographical military formations into which the Royal Navy divided its worldwide responsibilities. The South America Station was split into the Pacific Station and the South East Coast of ...
from 1855 to 1859.
BC Names/GeoBC entry "Hull Island"
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See also
*List of islands of British Columbia
This is a list of islands of British Columbia.
South Coast
Vancouver Island
*Vancouver Island
Gulf of Georgia
Gulf Islands
=Southern Gulf Islands=
*Brethour Island
* Cabbage Island
* Curlew Island
* De Courcy Islands
** Mudge Island
**Lin ...
References
Islands of British Columbia
Central Coast of British Columbia
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