Maurelle Island

MAURELLE ISLAND, 54 sq km, is located in the INSIDE PASSAGE between QUADRA ISLAND and the mainland. Hole in the Wall, a rapids familiar to coastal boaters, lies along the north coast. Known originally as Middle Valdes Island, it was renamed in 1903 after Francisco Antonio Maurelle, a Spanish naval officer who visited the coast in 1775. The earliest inhabitants were loggers and most of the island was logged by 1916. The terrain is rocky and broken, and though some farming took place in the...

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