Copper Islands

Copper Islands (52˚21'00" 131˚13'00" Off entrance to Skincuttle Inlet, SE side of Moresby I, QCI). While George M Dawson of the Geological Survey of Canada appears to have named this island group in 1878, the individual islands, including E Copper I, were named by Francis Poole in 1862. The QCI had seen a short-lived gold rush in 1851–53; subsequent mining surveys in 1859 by William Downie and Capt Robert Torrens indicated the presence of copper and coal. Poole, a young mining engineer with...

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