# Price Island

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{{Short description|Island in British Columbia, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
[[Image:Locmap-PriceIsland.png|thumb|300px|right|Price Island is located on the southeastern side of [Hecate Strait](/source/Hecate_Strait). Southeast of Price Island is [Milbanke Sound](/source/Milbanke_Sound), and Laredo Sound is to the northwest.]]
'''Price Island''' is an [island](/source/island) on the coast of the [Canadian province](/source/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada) of [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia). It is located at the southeastern end of [Hecate Strait](/source/Hecate_Strait) and the northeastern end of [Queen Charlotte Sound](/source/Queen_Charlotte_Sound_(Canada)). The southernmost point of Price Island, called Day Point, is used to delineate the boundary between Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound.<ref>{{BCGNIS|27249|Queen Charlotte Sound}}</ref> [Milbanke Sound](/source/Milbanke_Sound) is just to the south of Price Island. Laredo Sound is just north.<ref name=bcgnis>{{BCGNIS|30972|Price Island}}</ref> [Swindle Island](/source/Swindle_Island) lies just north of Price Island. The main [Inside Passage](/source/Inside_Passage) route crosses Milbanke Sound and enters [Finlayson Channel](/source/Finlayson_Channel) just east of Price Island. Price Island is located within the [Kitimat-Stikine Regional District](/source/Regional_District_of_Kitimat-Stikine).

Price Island is {{convert|23|km|mi}} long and {{convert|10|km|mi}} wide. It is {{convert|122|km2|sqmi}} in area.<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/69/85/S18085.html Swindle Island] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050310110557/http://www.bartleby.com/69/85/S18085.html |date=2005-03-10 }}, with info on Price Island; The Columbia Gazetteer of North America</ref>

Price Island was named in 1866 by Captain [Daniel Pender](/source/Daniel_Pender) of the Royal Navy, after Captain John Adolphus Pope Price,<ref>For more on John Adolphus Pope Price see: {{Cite NBD1849 |wstitle=Price, John Adolphus Pope}}</ref> also of the Royal Navy.<ref name=bcgnis/>

Price Island is part of a volcanic centre called the [Milbanke Sound Group](/source/Milbanke_Sound_Group) which includes several [monogenetic](/source/monogenetic_volcanic_field) [cinder cone](/source/cinder_cone)s. [Holocene](/source/Holocene) [basalt](/source/basalt)ic lava flows from Price Island overlie adjacent beach deposits.<ref>[http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1200-12- Global Volcanism Program: Milbanke Sound Group]</ref>

==See also==
*[List of volcanoes in Canada](/source/List_of_volcanoes_in_Canada)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101211094648/http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/volcanoes/cat/volcano_e.php?id=avb_pis_029 Catalogue of Canadian volcanoes: Price Island]

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Category:Islands of British Columbia
Category:Central Coast of British Columbia
Category:Range 3 Coast Land District

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