| Feature Type: | Island - Land area surrounded by water or marsh. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | De Courcy Group, just S of Gabriola Island, Nanaimo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°07'51"N, 123°47'28"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92G/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named c1859 by Captain Richards, RN, after Lieutenant William T. Fitzwilliam Mudge (1831-1863), HMS Pylades, on Pacific station 1859-1860. Drowned in New Zealand...... Source: Walbran, John T; British Columbia Coast Names, 1592-1906: their origin and history; Ottawa, 1909 (republished for the Vancouver Public Library by J.J. Douglas Ltd, Vancouver, 1971) |
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Labelled "Portland Island" on an unpublished chart in the 1850s used by HMS Virago. (SHALE, Journal of the Gabriola Historical & Museum Society, Vol.1, No.1, pp 44). William T.F. Mudge was a great-nephew of Lieutenant Zachary Mudge, with Vancouver's expedition, 1792 (SHALE, Vol.1, No.2, p 41). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |