Hernando Island
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| Location | British Columbia |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Archipelago | Discovery Islands |
| Total islands | 1 |
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Hernando Island is one of the Discovery Islands near Powell River, British Columbia, Canada.[1] Along with the nearby Cortes Island, it was presumably named in 1792 by Valdés and Galiano after Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico.[2]:240
A narrow gauge logging railway operated there in the 1920s. The island is now mostly privately owned by a consortium of larger landowners. In the 1960s the entire island was valued at $55,000. Now Hernando Island is owned privately among few people.
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