Dundas Island (British Columbia)

Dundas Island lies within the Alexander Terrane, and is an outcrop of older mafic metavolcanic rocks and metagreywacke from the Paleozoic through Mesozoic, intruded by younger Cretaceous plutons of quartz diorite, diorite, gabbro, and granodiorite. Rocks have been metamorphosed to greenschist facies and displays foliation that dips to the southeast. ==History==

The island and its archipelago were named in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver in honour of the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas (1742–1811), Treasurer of the Navy, 1783–1801, who was granted the title of Viscount Melville in 1802 and also named Baron Dunira. The Dundas islands were originally perceived by Vancouver to be one island which he named '''Dundas's Island. Among the smaller islands of the group are Baron Island, Dunira Island, Melville Island''' and other small islands and islets on the west side of Chatham Sound between Brown and Caamaño Passages. Dundas' son, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville is the namesake of Melville Island in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and also Melville Island in Australia, which was the site of the short-lived Fort Dundas. ==References==