Information About

Winstanley Island

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Winstanley Island on The Map

Location

55 ° 25' 52" N,
130 ° 54' 24.998" W

Region

Ketchikan Gateway

Nearest City

Saxman

Elevation

505 ft (153.92 m)

Winstanley Island in Detail.

About

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

History

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).