Keats Island
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Northbound from Keats Island. Looking northwards from Keats Island, which includes Gambier Island. is a populated island in Howe Sound near Vancouver, British Columbia. About eighty persons are living on Keats Island all year round. One of the bigger Howe Sound islets, off Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast and just to the west of Bowen Island.
Apart from a few grubbed areas, the whole island is forested. It has several shores spread across the island and a striking cliff known as Salmon Rock on the south-western tip. As many of the Howe Sound feature were designated Keats Island by George Henry Richards, who measured the coast of British Columbia from 1857 to 1862, first in HMS Plumper (known as Plumper Cove) until 1861 and then in HMS Hecate.
The name of Keats Island comes from Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, a British admiral. Under Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson 1, Admiral Keats was renowned for flying the HMS Superb through a Gibraltar barrage during the Napoleonic War of 1801. Admiral Keats was also Newfoundland' governing body in 1813.
The only large island in Howe Sound that has been renamed after an army commander who did not take part in the Battle of Trafalgar because his vessel was rebuilt at that age. The Keats Island housing estate consists mainly of cottages with about 80 full-time inhabitants. Keats Island municipalities are grouped around the two administrative quays; Keats Landing on the western seaboard overlooking the Shoal Channel, which separates the island from the continent, and the major Eastbourne municipality on the south-east by.
Plumper Cove also stretches along the western shores of the island from Freeman's Bluff (north of the administrative quay at Keats Landing) to Plumper Cove Marine Provincial Park and Melody Point at the northwestern tip of the island, opposite Langdale, British Columbia on the continent. The Keats Camps is a Baptist camps established in 1926 on the site of a former fruit garden on 93 ha of western Iceland.
Keat's landing was raised around the encampment, on land rented from the Baptist Convention of British Columbia. The Barnabas Family Ministries is a 64 hectare camping and recreation center on the northern side of the island. Keats Islanders can take a BC ferry from Horseshoe Bay just off Vancouver to the Langdale Ferry Terminal on the Sunshine Coast.
A pedestrian shuttle takes you to Keats Island and Gambier Island from the Langdale shipping station, and a boat taxicab takes you to Keats from Gibsons and Horseshoe Bay. Keats was operated for years from Langdale by the Dogwood Princess and is now operated by the Stormaway boat.
The streets are a few rugged, linking places on the island, but there is very little use of vehicles.