The McKenney Islands, or on some charts McKenny Islands, are a small group of islands in Hecate Strait, west of Aristazabal Island in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. The nearby Moore Islands and Whitmore Islands comprise with the McKenney Islands the Moore/McKenny/Whitmore Ecological Preserve.
Name origin
The islands were named in 1927 for Corporal John McKenney who served in British Columbia with the Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers from 1858 to 1863.
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52°39′03″N 129°28′56″W / 52.65083°N 129.48222°W / 52.65083; -129.48222 (McKenney Islands)
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