Gil Island

Gil Island (53˚12'00" 129˚14'00" W side of Whale Channel, entrance to Douglas Channel, N of Caamaño Sd), Gil Rock (53˚19'00" 129˚12'00" Off N side of Gil I), Mount Gil (53˚15'46" 129˚11'50" NE side of Gil I). Spanish naval officer Jacinto Caamaño named Gil I in 1792 while charting BC’s N coast in the Aránzazu and disproving the existence of the Str of Fonte, a mythical sea passage through N America. The derivation of the name is uncertain, though Capt John Walbran points out that...

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