Campania Island

Campania Island (53˚05'00" 129˚25'00" Between Squally Channel and Estevan Sd, N of Caamaño Sd, W of Princess Royal I), Campania Sound (53˚00'00" 129˚15'00" Between Campania I and Princess Royal I). Both features were named Compañía by Spanish naval officer Jacinto Caamaño, who explored this area in 1792 aboard Aránzazu, looking for (and disproving the existence of) a navigable passage across N America that the mythical Bartholomew de Fonte was supposed to have found in 1640. The...

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