Chrome Island

Chrome Island (49˚28'00" 124˚41'00" Off S end of Denman I, Str of Georgia). The light-coloured rocks of this geographical feature originally inspired the name Yellow I, bestowed by Admiralty surveyors about 1860. BC’s chief geographer, “presuming the ‘yellow’ to be a descriptive name,” authorized the change to Chrome I in 1923, pointing out that “there are three others of the same name [Yellow] in BC.” A lighthouse was established on the E end of the island in 1891 as an aid to...

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