List of islands named after people
This is a list of islands known to be named after individual people. It details the name of the island, its location and eponym.
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Isla de Apodaca, British Columbia, Canada – Dr. Salvador Apodaca (Bishop of the city of Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico) – now Bowen Island.svg.png.webp)
Banks Island, Queensland, Australia – Joseph Banks – now Moa Island
Bedloe's Island, New York, United States – Isaack Bedloo (merchant) – now Liberty Island- Blackwell's Island, New York, United States – Robert Blackwell – now Roosevelt Island
Fernando Pó, Equatorial Guinea – Fernão do Pó – now Bioko- Krusenstern Island, Adam Johann von Krusenstern
- Mulgrave Island, Queensland, Australia – Earl Mulgrave – now Badu Island
Prince of Wales Isle, Malaysia – George IV, Prince of Wales – now Penang Island- Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada – Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz – now Haida Gwaii
San Cristobal, Solomon Islands – Saint Christopher – now Makira- Sebald Islands – Sebald de Weert; now Jason Islands
Van Diemen's Land – Anthony van Diemen
References
- For more on Edwin Augustus Porcher see: O'Byrne, William R. (1849). . A Naval Biographical Dictionary. London: John Murray.
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