Burrows Island
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Burrows Island is located on the eastern side of Rosario Strait in Washington State waters. Its European name was given during the Wilkes Expedition of 1841 after Lieutenant William Burrows.1
  • 1. Lynn Middleton, Place Names of the Pacific Northwest Coast (Victoria: Elldee Publishing, 1969), 31.
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Wilkes, Lieutenant Charles

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Rosario Strait

The Colonial Despatches Team. Burrows Island. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/burrows.html.

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