Nettle Island

Nettle Island (48˚56'00" 125˚15'00" N end of the Broken Group, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). This feature was marked as Little I on the preliminary manuscript chart for Barkley Sd prepared by Capt George Richards, of the RN survey vessel Hecate, in 1861. On the published edition of the chart, however, which appeared in 1865, the name had been changed to Nettle I. Could this have been the result of a misreading of Little? Part of the island is a reserve and former habitation site of the...

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