Savary Island

Savary Island (49˚56'00" 124˚49'00" W of Malaspina Peninsula, NE end of Str of Georgia, NW of Powell R). This 450-ha wooded sandbar was named Savary’s I by Capt George Vancouver in 1792, but no one has been able to discover who Savary was. Vancouver found the Malaspina Str shoreline “very dreary,” but Savary I and its neighbours “presented a scene more pleasing and fertile.” Lt Peter Puget and Joseph Whidbey, master of HMS Discovery, spent a night on Savary while surveying the...

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