Shuttle Island

Shuttle Island (52˚40'00" 131˚42'00" In Darwin Sd, between E side of Moresby I and Lyell I, QCI), Shuttle Passage (Between Shuttle I and Lyell I), Shuttle Reef (52˚42'00" 131˚44'00" Just N of Shuttle I). Geologist George Mercer Dawson named Shuttle I in 1878 because its shape and position in Darwin Sd reminded him of a shuttle on a loom. The passage and reef were named much later, in association with the island, by the hydrographic service—the reef in 1922 and the passage in 1957. Several...

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