Hernando Island

Hernando Island (49˚59'00" 124˚55'00" NW of Savary I, NE end of Str of Georgia). Named in 1792 by Spanish explorers Dionisio Alcalá-Galiano and Cayetano Valdés in association with nearby Cortes I. Hernán Cortés (1485–1547), a Spanish conquistador, overthrew the Aztec empire in southern Mexico and initiated the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Hernando I, which is surrounded by beautiful beaches, was first settled and farmed in the 1880s, then railway logged in the 1910s. It was...

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