Exploring McNabs Island

McNabbs is located in Halifax Harbor and has an area of ​​about 395 hectares. In McNabu Island, the highest place of the island is 45 meters. The proportion of flat area is mainly about 20% on the mountain and coast beach. The ratio of gentle slope to middle slope is both about 25%, most of which occurred in the center of the island. In addition, the steep slope rate is always near the coast, about 30%.

The explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano noticed in 1524 that there was an island near the Narragansett bay. And that he resembled Rhodes (part of modern Greece). Later European explorers could not accurately identify the island named Ferrazzano, but the pilgrims that colonized the area later considered the island. Adrian Block passed through the island during the 1616 exploration. He portrays "island that looks red" in 1625, "een rodlich Eylande" in Dutch in the 17th century and is popular. The concept is that this Dutch phrase may have influenced the name of Rhode Island. (Historians speculate that this "red appearance" is due to red colored leaves and parts of the Red Sea.)

In 1609, British explorer Henry Hudson went to New York Bay on a half moon ship. In commemoration of the Netherlands parliament, the Dutch named the island Staaten Eylandt (literally "National Island") and the Netherlands parliament is still known as Staten-Generaal ("General"). In 1624 the first settlement of the New Holland colony was founded in the governor's island and used as a trading place more than a decade ago. In 1626, the colony moved to Manhattan Island designated as the new Dutch capital.