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| | Coastal Villages, by Liv Kennedy, Homepage, British Columbia,Lund, Wishbone, Campbell River, Cape Mudge, Quathiaski ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | To the right there are several small islets between the pass and Springer Point on the main shore of Sonora Island. |
 | | Sonora Island was named in 1903 in memory of the Spanish schooner Sonora commanded by Juan Francisco de la Bodega Quadra, the Spanish naval officer who explored and charted the British Columbia coast in 1791. |
 | | Owen Bay was named by Captain David Pender, R.N., master of the surveying vessel Beaver in 1864, after Commander Fredrick John Owen Evans, R.N., of the Admiralty Hydrographic Office. |
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