Английская Википедия:Bentinck Island
Шаблон:About Шаблон:Use Canadian English Bentinck Island is a small island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca just off the southern tip of Vancouver Island in Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada near Race Rocks. It served as a leper colony beginning in 1924, when the federal government shut down D'Arcy Island (also a leprosy colony), as Bentinck Island was closer to medical quarantine facilities, until 1957, when the last person affected by leprosy died.[1][2]
The Holland America cargo liner Шаблон:SS ran aground on Race Rocks on 15 October 1925.[3][4] She was refloated on 19 October[5] and beached on Bentinck Island. The tug Hope and her crew of seven were lost trying to salvage the liner.[3]
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