History of Sail Island

Named "Ship Island" by Lieutenant Commander R. W. Meade, U.S. Navy (USN), and published in 1869 on Hydrographic Chart 225. The name, "Sail Island," was published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) in the 1891 Coast Pilot (p. 143).

Found on the following Topo Maps

Places Near Sail Island

The Brothers, Storm Islands,

The Five Fingers,

Bird Rock, McDonald Rock, West Spit,

Fanshaw Bay, Frederick Sound, Last Chance Harbor, Steamboat Bay, Sunset Cove,

Point Walpole, Point Gambier, Bartlett Point, Bill Point, Canoe Point, Cape Fanshaw, Church Point, Duck Point, False Point Pybus, Fort Point, Grunt Point, McNairy Point, Rocky Point, Square Point, Point Windham,

Cleveland Passage, South Passage,

The Five Fingers, Akusha Island, Chapel Island, East Brother Island, Foot Island, Gain Island, Gambier Island, Good Island, Price Island, Romp Island, Round Rock, Sail Island, Sunset Island, Tree Island, The Twins, West Brother Island, Whitney Island,

Stephens Passage,

Libby Creek,