Redonda Islands

REDONDA ISLANDS, 280 sq km, are a pair of high, wooded islands at the mouth of TOBA INLET on the Central Coast north of DESOLATION SOUND. In 1792 the Spanish explorers Dionisio ALCALÁ-GALIANO and Cayetano VALDÉS mistook them for a single circular land mass and named them Redonda, Spanish for "round." In fact they are divided by the narrow Waddington Channel. Teakerne Arm indents the west side of W Redonda, while Pendrell Sound, with some of the warmest water on the coast, almost divides E...

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