Dufferin Island

Dufferin Island is an island on the British [Columbia Coast|Central Coast] of British Columbia, Canada, on the south side of Seaforth Channel just northwest of Bella Bella, [British Columbia|Bella Bella]. It was named in 1876 by Captain Chatfield and the officers of HMS [Amethyst (1873)|HMS Amethyst] after Frederick [Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava|Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood].
Dufferin Island is part of a volcanic area called the Milbanke [Sound Group] which includes several monogenetic cinder cones. Holocene basaltic lava flows from Dufferin Island overlie adjacent beach deposits.