Sartine Island

Sartine Island (50˚49'00" 128˚54'00" One of the Scott Is, W of Cape Scott, off the NW tip of Vancouver I). In 1786 the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, visited the PNW and gave to today’s Scott Is, off the NW end of Vancouver I, the name Îles Sartine. Sartine I, formerly known as W Haycock I, was renamed by the hydrographic service to keep this small slice of history alive. Lapérouse disappeared in 1788, somewhere in the S Pacific, with his ships the Boussole...

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