Maast Island

Maast Island (54˚00'00" 132˚10'00" Masset Hbr, N side of Graham I, QCI). According to a local story recorded by QCI historian Kathleen Dalzell, a man named Massetta, an officer on an early trading vessel, died while visiting the area and was buried on the island, which the Haida named after him. Massetta was difficult to pronounce, however, and became corrupted to Masheet or Mah-sh-t. Geologist George Mercer Dawson used the spelling Maast in 1878 and speculated that the nearby village of...

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