Dingle Island

Dingle Island (52˚10'00" 127˚57'00" In Gunboat Passage, N of Denny I, just W of Bella Bella). Named about 1925 by regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau for St Brendan of Clonfert (484–c 570), called “the Navigator,” who sailed from Dingle Bay on the SW coast of Ireland in the 6th century on an ambitious seven-year voyage of exploration in a small, skin-covered boat. Brendan, an early monastic priest, supposedly returned with his crew to tell of fiery oceanic mountains, floating palaces...

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