Keats Island, British Columbia

Keats Island, British Columbia

Keats Island is an inhabited island located in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia. Fewer than fifty people live on Keats Island year-round.

Physical geography, settlements and climate

Keats Island is one of the smaller islands in Howe Sound, located offshore from the community of Gibsons on the Sechelt Peninsula of the Sunshine Coast and directly west of Bowen Island.

History

Keats Island is named after Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, a British Admiral. Admiral Keats served under Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson and was famous for sailing the HMS Superb through a blockade at Gibraltar in 1801 during the Napoleonic wars. In 1813 Admiral Keats was also a governor of the Island of Newfoundland.

Settlement and services

The small settlement on Keats Island is mostly summer cabins with about 50 full-time residents. Most residents shop and obtain other services in the nearby community of Gibsons.

The communities on Keats Island (8 square kilometres) are clustered around the two government wharves; Keats Landing on the west coast facing Gibsons is the larger community and has a view of Shoal Channel separating the island from the mainland. The other community is known as Eastbourne and is located on the southeast shore.

Keats Camps is a Baptist summer camp operated on about 200 acres of land on the west part of the island.

Access

Keats Island can be accessed from Gibsons by foot passenger ferry or water taxi service from Vancouver. The island is not accessible by car. Residents often travel on the island by golf cart.

Visitors to Keats Island can take a BC Ferry vessel from Horseshoe Bay north of Vancouver to Langdale Ferry Terminal on the Sunshine Coast. Keats Island and nearby Gambier Island are served by foot passenger ferry from the ferry terminal at Langdale, and by Keats is accessible by water taxi from Gibsons and Horseshoe Bay.

Amenities

Keats Island has one of the oldest marine parks in BC; Plumper Cove Marine Provincial Park, which is a popular overnight destination for boats from nearby Gibsons and Vancouver.

Housing

Keats Island has permanent residents and recreation properties. Since the mid-1980s, new housing construction has mainly been for highly-crafted and unique homes.

Homes are clustered around the two wharves on the Island - Keats Landing, and Eastbourne.

Links

* [http://keats-island.ca The Keats Island Website]
* [http://www.bcferries.com/schedules/mainland/lgik-current.html BC Ferry schedule for Langdale-Keats Island]
* BC Government website for [http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/plumper.html Plumper Cover Marine Provincial Park]
* Information about [http://www.bc-camping.com/?n=keats+island&id=191&t=city camping on Keats Island]
* [http://www.keatscamps.com Keats Camp]


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