Cockburn Island

Cockburn Island is the name of two islands:

  • Cockburn Island (Antarctica)
  • Cockburn Island (Ontario)

Famous quotes containing the words cockburn and/or island:

    “The travel writer seeks the world we have lost—the lost valleys of the imagination.”
    —Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)

    “Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women.... Their arms were all of gold.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)