Twin Islands

Twin Islands (50˚02'00" 124˚56'00" Off SE side of Cortes I, N end of Str of Georgia). Regional hydrographer Henri Parizeau’s 1945 initiative to change a number of names in the vicinity backfired when local residents lobbied BC’s chief geographer to have the old names reinstated. Mink I (qv) had been changed to Repulse I, the Martin Is to the Tory Is and the Twin Is to the Ulloa Is. Twin Is is a purely descriptive name (though the islands are in fact joined by a drying bank and a short...

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