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Named by Captain George Henry Richards while surveying the area in 1859 aboard H.M.S. Plumper.
Captain Island is named after the seventy-four gun Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Captain (1787), which participated in the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) and Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) under the command of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.
Captain Island is named after the seventy-four gun Royal Navy vessel H.M.S. Captain (1787), which participated in the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) and Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) under the command of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Captain_(1787)
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Coordinates: 49°47'3"N 123°59'8"W
- Texada Island 47 km
- West Redonda Island 92 km
- Cortes Island 93 km
- Quadra Island 116 km
- Sonora Island 125 km
- Cracroft Island 213 km
- Nootka Island 215 km
- Calvert Island 362 km
- Hunter Island 392 km
- Campbell Island 405 km
- Ambrose Lake Ecological Reserve 6.4 km
- Hotham Sound 11 km
- Spipiyus Provincial Park 14 km
- Garden Bay Marine Provincial Park 16 km
- Narrows Inlet 16 km
- Warnock Bay 20 km
- Sechelt Inlet 23 km
- Jervis Inlet 25 km
- Malaspina Strait 26 km
- Salmon Inlet 27 km