Strongtide Islet

Strongtide Islet (48˚26'00" 123˚15'00" Just N of the Chatham Is, E side of Baynes Channel, E of Oak Bay, off SE tip of Vancouver I). This name was applied by RN surveyor Capt George Richards to his 1862 chart of the area. In the Vancouver I Pilot of 1864, also by Richards, he notes that “the ebb tide runs very strongly past it, nearly six knots at springs.”

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