Hoppner Island

Hoppner Island

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name = Hoppner Island


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location = Northern Canada
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country = Canada
country admin divisions title = Province
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Hoppner Island [cite web |url=http://travelingluck.com/North%20America/Canada/Ontario/_5976928_Hoppner+Island.html#local_map |title=Hoppner Island |accessdate=2008-10-04 |publisher=travelingluck.com] is an island in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada's Georgian Bay.

The island is one of several landforms named in honor of Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Henry Parkyns Hoppner who surveyed the region during William Edward Parry's First, Second, and Third Arctic Expeditions. [cite book |title=Ontario History |last=Ontario Historical Society |year=1910 |publisher=Kraus Reprint Co. |location=Millwood, N.Y. |oclc=22735988 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RwYVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA44&lpg=RA2-PA44&dq=%22henry+p.+hoppner%22&source=web&ots=srmSN6zWkJ&sig=tTtqXK8v81cZ0luE_vfBg3oaXBk&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result |pages=p. 44]

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