Denny Island (Canada)

Denny Island (Canada)

Denny Island is an island on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, just east of the community of Bella Bella, aka Waglisla, on Campbell Island. Denny Island is the location of Old Bella Bella, now mainly abandoned but home to Canadian Coast Guard and Fisheries & Oceans bases, and the locality of Shearwater, home to Shearwater Marine. Denny Island has a population of 138.[1] [2]

Name origin

"Also Denny Rock, Queen Charlotte Sound. Named c1866 by Captain Pender, after Lieutenant D'Arcy Anthony Denny, commander on this station 1866-68, HM gunboat edit] See also

References

  1. ^ Canada Census
  2. ^ "Denny Island". BC Geographical Names. http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/14488.html. 
  3. ^ Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971)

Coordinates: 52°08′00″N 128°00′00″W / 52.1333333°N 128°W / 52.1333333; -128



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