Sea Island

Sea Island (49˚11'00" 123˚10'00" Mouth of the Fraser R, NW of Lulu I). This island, now completely diked, was once so flat and marshy it was hard to tell what was ocean and what was land—hence the name, applied by Capt George Richards in 1859. A different explanation holds that, of all the Fraser estuary’s main islands, this one is nearest the sea. It was also known in the early days as McRoberts I, after Hugh McRoberts, the first white settler on the island, in 1861, who established one...

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