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Winstanley Island

Winstanley Island

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Ketchikan Gateway
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 505 ft (153.92 m)
About

in Behm Canal, 2 mi. NE of Smeaton I., Coast Mts.

History of Winstanley Island

Named in 1879 by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for the English engineer who built the first Eddystone Lighthouse near Plymouth, England in 1696-1699, an who lost his life there in 1903; published in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 72).