Campania Island is an island

Island

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 on the coast of the Canadian province

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 of British Columbia

British Columbia

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. It is located south of Prince Rupert

Prince Rupert, British Columbia

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, east across Hecate Strait

Hecate Strait

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 from the Queen Charlotte Islands

Queen Charlotte Islands

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. To the west of Campania Island, across Estevan Sound, is the Estevan Group

Estevan Group

The Estevan Group, formerly the Estevan islands, is a small archipelago in the Hecate Strait region of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. The archipelago is located on the west side of Campania Island, which is separated from the group by Estevan Sound and is itself to the west of Gil...

 archipelago. Banks Island

Banks Island (British Columbia)

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 lies to the northwest, across Nepean Sound, and Pitt Island

Pitt Island (Canada)

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 lies to the north across Otter Channel. To the northeast, across Squally Channel, is Gil Island

Gil Island (Canada)

Gil Island is an island on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of Whale Channel in the entrance to Douglas Channel, one of the main coastal inlets, on the route of the Inside Passage between Pitt Island and Princess Royal Island. It is 26 km long, with a width...

, and to the east is Princess Royal Island

Princess Royal Island

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, across Campania Sound. To the south of Campania Island is Caamaño Sound

Caamaño Sound

Caamaño Sound is a sound on the coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It extends east from Hecate Strait. Princess Royal Island, Rennison Island, and Aristazabal Island lie to the south of the sound. Several islands lie to the north, including Campania Island and the Estevan Group of...

, beyond which is Aristazabal Island

Aristazabal Island

Aristazabal Island is an island situated south west of Princess Royal Island in British Columbia, Canada. It has an area of . The island was named on August 30, 1792, by Lieutenant Commander Jacinto Caamaño of the Spanish corvette Aranzazu for the Spanish Captain Gabriel de Aristazábal, one of the...

.

Campania Island is 29 kilometres (18 mi) long and ranges in width from 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi). It is 127 square kilometres (49 sq mi) in area.

Campania Island was named in 1792 by the Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño

Jacinto Caamaño

Jacinto Caamaño Moraleja was the leader of the last great Spanish exploration of Alaska and the Coast of British Columbia. He was a Knight of the Military Order of Calatrava. Born in Madrid, he came from an aristocratic Galician family, whose homestead was near Santiago de Compostela...

, who explored the region in the corvette

Corvette

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 Aranzazu. Caamaño named the island Compañia and that spelling was used for the maps made by George Vancouver

George Vancouver

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. Over time the spelling was changed to Campania.

The island's high point is Mount Pender, with an elevation of 740 metres (2,427.8 ft).