Dundas Island (British Columbia)

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Dundas Iceland is an island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located on the west side of Chatham Sound northwest of Prince Rupert. It is the largest of the Dundas Islands. The island group includes the islands of Baron, Dunira and Melville Iceland and other islands between Brown and Caamano Passage.

History

At Far West Point, where there is now the preserve of the Tsimshian, the Far West Point Indian Reserve, was found in 2006 traces of human activity dating from the 8th and 9th millennium BC.

Traditionally sailed both Haida and Tsimshian and Tlingit, the region around the island. They collected seaweed there and began halibut.

The island was named in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver to Henry Dundas ( 1742-1811 ), the Navy Treasurer from 1783 to 1801. He was also called Baron Dunira why the island is sometimes also called Dunira Iceland. Vancouver was the assumption that the islands were a single island, which he called Dundas 's Iceland accordingly. A geographical dictionary of 1843 noted the island already under the name Dundas Iceland, but called nothing but the approximate coordinates.

1810 drove a Russian fleet under Captain Ivan Aleksandrovich Kuskow accompanied by the American ship O'Cain under the command of J. Winship on the coast southward, where, at Dundas Iceland of Tsimshian or Tlingit, who had both made bad experiences with the Russians were attacked. The American Captain Samuel Hill, who was lying with his brig Otter at Dundas, the Russians threatened to ally with the Indians, they would let it come to an open fight with the Tsimshian. The Russians sailed 1,400 otter skins north again.

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• Island (British Columbia)
• Island (North America)
• Skeena - Queen Charlotte Regional District