Liska Islet

Liska Islet (50˚43'00" 126˚43'00" SW of Crib I, Sunday Hbr, E end of Queen Charlotte Str). Named in 1952 for Able Seaman Vincent Liska, who drowned off N Korea Dec 4, 1950, aged 28. He was on night patrol with HMCS Cayuga at the time and was lost overboard while the destroyer was engaging a shore battery. A native of the Czech Republic, he had lived at Victoria with his wife, Carol, and at Natal in the E Kootenays before WWII. He also served on the BC coast in 1944 as a crewman with the...

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